August Abolins wrote in a message to All:

 AA> Hi All,

 AA> Standard Unveiled for Motor Vehicle Black Box

 AA> So-called black boxes have been so reliable at gathering critical
 AA> data from plane crashes that the devices have found their way, with
 AA> little or no fanfare, into millions of cars and trucks. And in
 AA> September, IEEE Standard 1616 was completed for black boxes or, as
 AA> they are known more formally, motor vehicle event data recorders.
 AA> This is the equipment that collects, records, stores, and has ready
 AA> for readout data about a vehicle's operation. Find out more at:

 AA> http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/pages/tionline/legacy/inst
 AA> 2004/nov04/11w.fblackbox.html>

 AA> d(-_-)b  ..August

As long as they don't either require this sort of nonsense to be
retrofitted to older vehicles (which would be way too expensive for the
most part) or tell me that I can't drive older vehicles,  I'm not too
worried about it... 

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