Black Boxes In Cars Will Be Standard By 2014

Filed under: Car Safety, Driving Laws If you thought police tracking your movements via license plate scanners was creepy, you may want to check your owner’s manual to see if your own car has been spying on you for decades. If you thought police tracking your movements via license plate scanners was creepy, you may want to check your owner’s manual to see if your own car has been spying on you. Event data recorders, also known as EDRs or black boxes, began showing up in cars in 1990 when General Motors introduced them for quality control purposes …