Posted on 12/16/2012 1:37:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bypassing Congress, the Obama administration has issued a proposed administrative rule, which if adopted, would mandate the installation of "black boxes" in all automobiles and light trucks beginning in 2014.
The U.S. Department of Transportations National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed the regulation on Dec. 7, which it said would capture valuable safety-related data in the seconds before and during a motor vehicle crash.
The proposed standard would require automakers to install event data recorders (EDRs) so-called black box devices -- to collect specific safety related data in all light passenger vehicles beginning Sept. 1, 2014.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said approximately 96 percent of model year 2013 passenger cars and light-duty vehicles are already equipped with black-box capability...
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Reminds me of the Lee Majors movie ‘The Last Chase’ where he was the last race car driver, and he was forced by the commie fed govt to lecture kids that driving was bad...
Maybe I should start a black box disabling business.
Sounds like another reason to keep the old vehicles and fix them as needed.
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