If the civilian police could do the search, then they probably should have.

If the search was done on-duty, it used military resources and so should not be reported.

The laws of war generally oppose weapons intentionally intended to maim rather than kill. Mostly dates to popular revulsion around the WW1 era over weapons designed to inflict nonlethal but gruesome casualties to hobble the other side by flooding their hospitals and supply chains. As a result, countries agreed to a ban on various chemical weapons, expanding bullets, weapons designed to blind people, etc.

This year is going to mark the endpoint on a whole lot of climate change denier graphs.

You'd be surprised how much use can be made of 30 minutes of information. Also, in the absence of an accident, the information you mentioned cannot determine if anyone was actually put at risk. Practically no car has GPS connected with control positions and few record 30 minutes.

Will legacy cars have an automatic out since the recorded information won't be there?

How about if the black box malfunctions or "malfunctions"

Interestingly, your brief description of the method was enough to google up a heap of research on Google.

Since you said non-sterile and mentioned surgery, I'll guess this is isolated intestinal loop dialysis?

What was the improvement?

So it's public domain, used by thousands but you can't say what it is and I couldn't possibly read about it? Not even a little hint?

Is it in Dan Brown's next novel by chance? You realize you make the whole thread sound like 'beef by-products', yes?

I have a 4s that hangs out with my keys in my pocket and the glass looks as good as the day it came from the factory. The thin bevel around the edge however has turned brown and looks like a moonscape. I am seriously impressed by the amount of abuse it has taken without acquiring a single scratch.

In this case, it is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (look up a few posts). That act is what keeps the military from doing civilian law enforcement. It ran afoul of it because an NCIS agent did a search on civilians.

The perp isn't terribly sympathetic in this case but the act is very important and calls for strict protection.

You're going to need a much more expensive black box to log enough to make the results unambiguous. They'll have to log enough information to make them prime targets for warrant-less searches for non-safety purposes.

The crazy prison population comes mainly from non-violent drug offenses.

Or they could quit designing cars to deliver the contents of the engine compartment to your lap.

First, your 'freebie' is ruinous to some people (we're talking living in a shelter losing the kids sort of ruinous). The second is ruinous to nearly anyone.

So don't do it, you say. Fine as soon as cops start only writing fair and just tickets without quotas AND as soon as traffic court runs the kangaroos out and takes the right to a fair trial seriously.

Until; those very unlikely things happen, perhaps a court ordered technological solution with NO fine is more appropriate.

No extension is needed at all if we had reasonable people in government (I know, belly laugh time) especially in the courts (OK, I'll stop before you break a rib).