Which passenger vehicles contain Event Data Recorders (black box)?
Cars don’t have Event Data Recorders…Airplanes do. Vehicles have Airbag Control Modules which have the ability to record certain data. The sole purpose of the ACM is to gather data from the vehicles different sensors and determine if the airbags should deploy or not. It saves some of that data. They’re in every vehicle that has an airbag. Bosch Diagnostics sells a Crash Data Retrieval system that accesses the data in some ACMs depending on the manufacturer. Right now, the only manufacturers that allow the CDR system to access the data are Ford, GM, and Chrysler. The other manufacturers can access the data on their own, but may or may not offer that information to accident investigators.
