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Old 11-26-06, 12:50 PM
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There's an video/article on CNN right now about the "Black Box" in a car. Basically these are event data recorders that record the events in a car 10 seconds before and 1 second after the airbag is deployed. I guess these are suppose to help monitor the effectiveness of airbags, but they have been used against car owners as well in a negative manner. Hopefully none of us is ever put in a situation where we would have to use or see this, but the question I have is are our Lexus' equipped with this device? I believe the statistic they mentioned in the video is that 75% of new cars being sold have this device.
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Those kinda **** put people in jail. It's stupid. But it all depends on which side of the ball you want to play on.
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LS460 has an EDR system. Only Lexus model currently that does.
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This is old news...just another example of Big Brother watching.
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i read in my manuel GS350 that is does have a box that records that type of data
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I believe that all toyota models have them, that Toyota is
the only company that has 100% installed. Just read it somewhere.
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