everyone knows there is no cake!

I have hundreds of genetically modified dandelions on my unprotected yard.... where are the activists when you need them?!

I'm sorry Dave... but I'm afraid Slashdot can't do that

The current EDRs (Event Data Recorders) only store the last few moments leading up to a crash (crash is judged by either rapid deceleration, or by air-bags being deployed). In their current state, they wouldn't retain information long enough to be able to be used for anything like you mention.

AFAIK, as an emergency first responder, these boxes have been present in most vehicles already for quite a few years (close to a decade). You may very well have one in your current vehicle but are unaware of it. The new part is making them mandatory.

Some items that it stores in the moments before and during a collision:
- Speed immediately before rapid deceleration
- RPMs
- Brake application or lack there of
- Force of impact
- Which airbags were deployed
- Whether the driver was wearing a seat-belt (other passengers too, if the vehicle is equipped to sense that)

Those are the fairly standard/common items. Other vehicles with steering-response and/or traction control etc. will also log those items.

Seems that maybe they should have programmed it in Lisp?

Thanks, I'm here all week!

Unfortunately, like most (all?) politicians, the are likely just telling us what we want to hear and not what they intend on doing.

Everything sounds fine and dandy until they get elected....

Just my 2 cents (2.1 cents USD)

oh.... well now it's not funny.... they fixed it

It seems Slashdot currently has currently first class editing :)

Wait... are you saying Skittles don't come from rainbows?!
Bastards!

Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!

Maybe I'm a little bit in the minority here, but can you blame them?

If you owned a company, and one of your major clients was thinking about moving to another company, would you not try everything in your power to keep them?

Or you're writing an e-mail:

USER: "New e-mail. To Bob M, From Matt C ..."
Computer: "Command accepted... Formatting C"

What's worse, after his Mom reads the e-mail, she'll probably kick him out of the basement!

Eh-men my fellow Canadian!

(couldn't resist)

Wow... it's bee a long time since I've been moded redundant because, if I remember correctly, the last time I was moded redundant was a long time ago.