THE European Union is drawing up plans for aircraft-style black box recorders to be fitted to all cars to help the police identify who is responsible for crashes.
A £2.4m, three-year study commissioned by the European commission’s transport arm has recommended the mandatory installation of the boxes in all cars. They will record 20 types of data, including speed, the car’s most recent movements and whether the driver braked or indicated.
The information will be used by police and insurance firms to reconstruct crashes and determine who was at fault. It could then be used in court cases. Insurers would be able to expose bogus claimants by checking their account of an accident against what really happened.
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This has nothing to do with crashes but everything to do with monitoring your every move and handy for the intoduction of road price charging!
In the past few months I heard that this is one of the things being integrated into cars in North America. I just cannot remember who said it but Bill Cooper comes to mind but he cannot be the one.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, it was to do with all the carbon taxes in the works as financial grabs and rip offs due to the environmental regime they are putting into place. It would basically keep mileage so that, before tax time, your miles are tallied and you are taxed accordingly.
However, throw in the rest of these theories and they would suit also. But face it, greed is a primary motive in all they do, as well as control of course.