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These EDR systems do not record audio (voices) or video, direction of travel, location, date, time, who is in the car, phone operation, or any history regarding where you've been or how fast you have driven (except for the few seconds prior to a crash, as noted below). Because Vetronix originally sold these devices, you still sometimes hear their name come up, but they are out of this business, AFAIK. The diagnostic kit required to access the currently available crop of EDRs is sold by Bosch (who purchased this business unit from Vetronix a few years ago), and is called the Crash Data Retrieval System, or CDR-Tool. Better understanding of how crashes occur in the real world and what causes people to get hurt can lead to an improvement in overall safety for everyone. The goal of such recording was initially contemplated as a means of providing information to investigators about the actual crash environment the module was experiencing when it decided to either fire the bags or not. The module is working in a black closet with almost no information about the car and none about the environment and is trying to predict what's coming! The EDR-aspects of ACM (and PCM) functionality have been a secondary job at best. THESE are what I'll be discussing on this webpage.ДЇor ACMs the real job is to monitor the car's status, determine when the car is experiencing an event which meets airbag deployment criteria, and deploy the belt tensioners/airbags/etc. This functionality is usually found in the airbag contol module (ACM), but may also be found in the engine controller or Powertrain Control Module (PCM) of some vehicles.

The closest thing we've got is that some cars have some EDR functionality built into various components. No passenger vehicles currently sold in the US have a dedicated EDR system. There are some aftermarket passenger vehicle EDR-systems which are usually used for fleet applications. There are some dedicated OEM and aftermarket EDR systems for airplanes, Railroad Engines, ships, and heavy trucks. The generic term for any device which records information about particular events, such as crashes or airbag deployments, is commonly called (intuitively enough) an Event Data Recorder, or EDR. To get the latest EDR information, I suggest taking the IPTM class on using EDR in Crash Reconstruction, or perhaps one of the others out there. This page is slated for deletion eventually.

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Many of the links here are broken, and I am not inclined to update them. MAY 2017: With no updates in a few years, this page is clearly primarily a historical document and does not represent the current state of the art. Mechanical Forensics Engineering Services, LLC

Mechanical Forensics: Event Data Recorders & the CDRTool

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