Report to Congress on Electronic Control Module Technology for Use in Recording Vehicle Parameters During a Crash.

摘要

This report is in response to the FY2000 Senate Appropriations Committee request (the Committee) in Senate Report 106-55, dated may 27, 1999. The Committee requested the agency to work with interested parties to explore control modules in trucks, and for access to that data. The Committee believes there are potential benefits of this technology in that it could prove useful to law enforcement investigations of highway crashes. For the purposes of this report, electronic control module is referred to as event data recorder (EDR), because in this application the technology is used to gather a variety of vehicle and events data surrounding a crash or near-miss incident when, or just before it occurs. As the Committee noted in its report, these include data such as vehicle speed, and brake pedal and throttle position. Data is typically recorded continuously over a specified time interval, such as three minutes.