BLACK BOXES * Europe - EU proposes 'one' for buses and taxis
Buses, taxis and lorries could be fitted with aircraft style “black boxes” under European Commission proposals to boost road safety
(Video from YouTube, by dogcamsport -29 Sept 2009: This is a higher quality version of a video recorded on the Roadhawk RH-1. A customer's Monaro being driven by a local garage at more than 125mph. A high speed dangerous chase on busy public roads... This is a screen capture of the software running on desktop. The original video is a smooth 25fps... The RoahHawk RH-1 is a vehicle black box data and video recorder. It stores GPS, Video and G-Force data on a constant loop on a normal SD memory card... When playing back the video on the viewing software provided it overlays your GPS co-ordinates on to a Google Earth map in real time and displays your current speed and shock data... RH-1 can be set to always record on a loop or in shock mode it only keeps the video if it detects a sudden change in G-Force... The video can be exported to a normal .AVI file and then used as evidence in the event of an accident...)
London,EN,UK -The Telegraph, by David Millward -20 Jul 2010: -- The Commission, which has set a target of reducing road deaths by half over the next decade, wants to examine putting the devices into commercial vehicles... The Commission has already spent £2.4 million on examining how the technology would work in a scheme known as “Project Veronica”... The black boxes could be used to help police piece together what happened following an accident. They could, for example, detect whether a car has braked suddenly or swerved... Opponents of the use of black boxes have warned their introduction would lead to the further growth of the surveillance state... Supporters of the scheme say it would help drivers involved in an accident prove they were not to blame for a collision... Other key plans of the road safety strategy include the compulsory installation of electronic stability control on cars as well as automatic braking systems for buses and lorries...
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