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"the primary function of the black box devices would be to record..." Ok. "...and transmit data" Wait, what? Are there any further details on how this is su
by mortenjorck 15y ago
"the primary function of the black box devices would be to record..."
Ok.
"...and transmit data"
Wait, what?
Are there any further details on how this is supposedly going to work? Do the boxes have built-in cellular modems with permanently-activated SIMs? What network are they connecting to? Where are they transmitting the data? Who maintains the servers?
Transmitting black-box data is a huge leap beyond simply recording it.
- excuse-me 15y agoIn legal terms transmitted can just mean downloaded after an accident. One computer company famously had an OS that met a US top security classification which required that all user events were logged. There was no way of reading these logs - but the security standard only required that there were logs, it didn't say anything about extracting them!
- beej71 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_only_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_only_memory
- rprasad 15y agoIt does not actually require transmission, as others have noted. That BS was added by BGR to increase rageviews. The law merely requires that black boxes be interoperable with specified tools for reading from black boxes, i.e., by incorporating a standard data transfer protocol (USB, Bluetooth, etc.).