Meeting with reporters Friday, GM's new vice president for government relations, Robert E. Ferguson, said GM backs legislation in the works from Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, to mandate event data recorders.
"I think EDRs ought to be in every car," Ferguson said. "Devices ought to be readily available so that law enforcement can find out what happens to vehicles involved in crashes."
Similar to black boxes on airplanes, auto recorders collect data for the last five seconds of a crash, including vehicle speed and whether the driver was wearing a seatbelt and applied the brakes, reports The Detroit News.
GM began widely installing the predecessor version of today's event data recorders in vehicles in the 1990 model year, and they became standard equipment in light duty vehicles in the 1995 model year.
No comments:
Post a Comment