States debate privacy safeguards on vehicle black boxes
Bismarck, ND - Raymon Holmberg did not know his new sedan came with a long arm of the law. The trader had no difficulty to remain silent on the “black box”, a chip that stores information on speed and seat belt.
“When I bought my car,” he said, “I did not realize what I was also buying a highway patrolman to sit in the back seat.”
Holmberg, a state senator, said that his privacy was violated and is aimed at “black boxes”. Legislators in 10 other countries are also hoping to set “black boxes”, said the National Conference of State Legislature.
The bill Holmberg is Sponsoring - until the approval of the Senate Wednesday after consideration by Parliament - requires that buyers say if their new car or truck is equipped with a black box and would prohibit the data are used in the courts. What subscription services Onstar that can be used to the position of a moving vehicle, would be exempt.
His criticisms were lautstärksten carmakers. For General Motors, said lobbyist Thomas Kelsch, it makes no sense, a bar information from the computer chip is not used in court.
“What society although the suppression of valuable crash data?” Kelsch asked.
But Holmberg, Grand Forks, a Republican, again raises the question of privacy. It ensures that the data could be used, or driving habits can be used against a driver who has an accident.
“Most people do not recognize these devices are in their vehicle, that the information recorded may be used against them and there is no type of regulation, that information is,” he said.
California has a law on the books, traders and businesses arrivals vehicle to inform the driver if a vehicle has a black box. In New York it is illegal for rental companies to use Global Positioning System technology for the driver and use data from taxes or surcharges sanctions.
Insurance investigators say that privacy concerns are exaggerated.
“These guys try to push back North Dakota courts to the Dark Ages,” said Jim Harris, owner of Harris Technical Services, an accident at the Florida investigation. “What do you do? Be seduced videotape?”
According to the National Highway Transportation Administration, more than 15 percent of vehicles - about 30 million cars and trucks - Black Boxes. More than 65 percent to 90 percent of 2004 cars and trucks, they have the NHTA.
Rusty Haight, director of the Collision Safety Institute, the research of breakdowns and accidents trains investigators, said black boxes were with airbags in cars in the 1970’s.
Airbag sensors information already collected, and it was a small step until researchers, to see how other systems performing, Haight said.
North Dakota Highway Patrol Hptm. Mark Bethke said crash investigators must have an arrest warrant for access to information from a VCR. He said that collecting this information patrol less than once per month and has never been used before the courts.
John Buchanan, an accident reconstruction expert from Miami, said investigators must compare what the recorder says to the physical evidence of an accident at the scene.
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