Carblackbox.co.uk Website Review

Most people as*ociate black boxes with airplanes but they are no longer just the key tool in investigation of airplane accidents. The event data recorder (EDR) as the black box is officially called is slowly gaining an important role in investigation of car accidents as well. Despite the fact that some people have expressed concerns about privacy issues, car black boxes are not helpful for car accident investigators and insurance companies only. By recording the events and actions of the driver including speed, braking, turning, etc. seconds before the collision, the car black box will undoubtedly help both the police and insurance companies in reconstruction of the events before the accident but it will also bring a number of benefits for the car’s owner. Civil groups that are concerned about these black boxes incriminating the driver are of course right but imagine that you were involved in an accident that was not caused by you on an The event data recorders are already installed in cars although many people are unaware of having such device installed. The first one was installed already in 1996, while as much as 70% to 85% of new cars come with installed car black boxes. These are not visible because they are under the seat or dashboard and activate about 5 seconds before the senses trigger activation of the airbags. Car black boxes were originally created to determine the cause of airbags’ activation but they collect several data of the driver’s actions including the speed which has made them very useful for reconstruction of accidents. In fact, the data recorded by car black boxes has been already used as an important evidence in the courts. A 19 year old man was convicted in the United Kingdom in 2006 on the base of data obtained from the car black box which has shown that he was driving way too fast. But the speed is not everything that a car black box records. One unit that collects data varies greatly from one vehicle to another and the