Let's just make vehicles more expensive than they all ready are with this wonderful idea. I guess the idea is the more expensive you make the vehicle the fewer people will drive so there will be fewer accidents. Counter productive way of going about things though.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Poul Anderson












'Proponents of black boxes....say they could provide investigators with an exhaustive database that could highlight flaws in auto and road designs'.
Well, seeing as I live in the Motor City, this is something that really scares me. With the technology that we have available today for designing an automobile (or a road), if we need these black boxes to highlight design flaws, then we've got bigger problems than determining how a car crash possibly happned.
It is almost incomprehensible (to me, anyway) why we have as many Safety recalls on vechiles that we do. The latest, I believe, being 2002-2004 Saturn Vue's for the design of the rear suspension. We've been designing and building autos with rear suspensions on vechiles for.....how long?
But, yes, I can see how a little black box installed in all vechiles (with the cost passed onto the consumer, no less) is how we should fix the problem.....NOT.