EDR question

[Nue]

Anyone familiar with the event data recorder (EDR)? Supposedly our cars have it but I haven't found anything on the forums related to this thing.

http://hldi.org/research/qanda/edr.html

Get ourselves ratted out for doing something inappropriate. Like driving 75 or 85 and then having a mount fail on you. That'd be real fun. So what is it exactly? Is it loaded in the ECU already? Or are these things like the ones on planes where they're like little black boxes? It's kinda scary to have something which could be used to testify against you.

 

[SRTie4k]

Anyone familiar with the event data recorder (EDR)? Supposedly our cars have it but I haven't found anything on the forums related to this thing.

http://hldi.org/research/qanda/edr.html

Get ourselves ratted out for doing something inappropriate. Like driving 75 or 85 and then having a mount fail on you. That'd be real fun. So what is it exactly? Is it loaded in the ECU already? Or are these things like the ones on planes where they're like little black boxes? It's kinda scary to have something which could be used to testify against you.

It states that the vehicle manufacturer is required to notify the owner in the handbook. Have you looked through there?

It also says that only the owner is allowed access to the data without a court order.

 

[714ms3]

It states that the vehicle manufacturer is required to notify the owner in the handbook. Have you looked through there?

It also says that only the owner is allowed access to the data without a court order.

Good information.

 

[destrux]

Interesting. Probably in the ECU. Many cars have used something like this for years in a different form to support CEL diagnostics. When a CEL is close to flagging the ECU starts to record all the sensor data and keeps it in a file in the ECU so it can be read later to help diagnose the problem. Helps alot to know if that misfire code flagged during idle or during a WOT interstate bonzai run... lol.


Not that I'm paranoid... but my next car is going to be OBDI.