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Fatal exit : the automotive black box debate /

"Fatal Exit: The Automotive Black Box Debate cuts through thirty years of political wrangling and institutional biases to provide an argument for the Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder (MVEDR). This automotive equivalent of an airplane's flight recorder or black box is intended to solve the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kowalick, Tom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, N.J. : Hoboken, N.J. : IEEE Press ; Wiley, ©2005.
Subjects:
Traffic accidents > Research > United States > Equipment and supplies.
Automobiles > Collision damage > United States > Statistics.
Automobiles > United States > Safety measures.
Automobile industry and trade > United States.
Privacy, Right of > United States.
Traffic accident investigation > United States > Equipment and supplies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments.
  • Foreword.
  • Introduction.
  • I. SYMPTOMS OF A PROBLEM.
  • 1 Question Everything.
  • 2 Nothing Happens for the First Time: 1969-1998.
  • 3 Shifting Gears: April 1998-September 2002.
  • 11. SAFETY DEBATE.
  • 4 NHTSA Call for Comments: October 2002.
  • 5 Things Are Further Away in the Dark: December 2002.
  • 6 Blowin' the Horn: January 2003.
  • 111. SOCIETAL I S S U E S.
  • 7 Cruise Control: February 2003.
  • 8 Turn Signals: February to March 2003.
  • 9 Speed Bumps: March to November 2003.
  • 10 Legal and Privacy Issues: 1999-2004.
  • 11 Pros and Cons and Customers of Safety Data and NHTSA Rulemaking.
  • 12 The Road Ahead: Automotive's Second Century.
  • Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations.
  • Glossary of Terms.
  • Other Resources.
  • Standards.
  • Chronology.
  • Notes.
  • Bibliography.
  • Index.