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New car purchases starting in June will have a mandatory black box installed
Add a comment Kenneth Schortgen Jr, Finance Examiner
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.51 SharePrintEmail 51SharePrintEmail.Beginning in June of 2011, all new cars manufactured and sold in the United States will be required to have a mandated black box device installed, which can be used to monitor several different physical and technical data points.

On May 24th, a report on the new regulatations to be implemented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) next month expands the program that in February was just in a consideration phase.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is expected to issue new regulations next month, that will require a black box style data recorder be fitted in all new cars.

Similar in concept to the familiar black boxes used in commercial aircraft for decades, the boxes are expected to record information about speed, seat belt use and brake application in the final seconds leading up to an accident, the data can be retrieved for later analysis. – Dvice.com

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The installation and use of these black boxes can have infinite possibilities for local, state, and federal governments to monitor and record data for a number of other revenue programs that are currently under consideration. In March, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a proposal to institute a tax on mileage to help pay for the federal budget deficit. Additionally, local cities and counties can download information from these black boxes, and they can be used to issue driving citations after the fact in the case of speeding or not wearing a seat belt.

While the concept of installing a black box in new automobiles has several good points in assisting law enforcement and emergency services as to the location and circumstances of an accident or road emergency, policies currently underway by many municipalities and states show that public safety personnel are now being used more as revenue collectors than as first responders to incidents as they occur.

In addition, current mobile devices outside the automobile black box such as androids and tom-toms are being used by law enforcement to retrieve data on customer travel.

That’s a theoretical problem, a real problem is the fact that the data is being used to setup police revenue sources such as speed cameras. A Dutch firm has openly admitted that they use TomTom customer data to setup speed traps. So this anonymized data is actually being used to cost you money for something that isn’t actually dangerous as currently implemented (in other words speed limits aren’t actually a safety limit but an arbitrarily selected number). – blog.christopherburg.com

Selling the public on safety for new policies and provisions, while using the programs to create new revenue streams is becoming more the norm than simply isolated incidents. When the tax on cigarettes became enlarged under the guise of helping users stop the addiction, expanding the tax soon turned into the first concession by local legislatures when they needed new money for programs. Add to this, the creation of red-light and speed devices on local streets and highways to monitor safety quickly became massive revenue streams for municipalities.

With mandatory black boxes being installed in all new cars sold in the US starting next month, the public needs to be aware of the potential these devices can have as means to collect revenue for states and the federal government outside the reported use by the NHTSA as a safety device.

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Most Christian's knows well that their motive is NOT safety..anything from here on in is not about having ones safety and health in mind..its about taking away your rights..its the same as having monitors in your home..which an evil goverment will mostly likly do..if they havn't already by( via) new TV changes made..and to make sure all had access or rather be be accessed by gov....bama held off the change untill making it possible for those without new TV's get the black box..paid for with tax $$$..reminds me of a Verse in OT (Major Prophets) worded something like this " They will put bands on my peoples heads and hunt them down like dogs"...sounds like a tracking system to me..

I guess my hubby and I don't have to worry about having a black box in any of our vehicles.

We can't afford the cost of a new vehicle!!!!!!

We buy salvage vehicles and have them fixed. Cheaper that way. Sometimes a vehicle is considered totaled when the motor isn't damaged at all. So it is just the cost of having the frame, fenders, and whatever else fixed or replaced.

but "Tweet" supposing he use (misused ) executive power and make it law to have black boxes in older cars..ya know how he held off the transition of TV change over untill he got funds (stim-money) to buy voucher's to send everyone that did not have new TV with build in thingy ... those vouchers help them (fokes with out of date TV's to buy *Black Boxes* to connect old TV up...now it was claim to make your TV look clearer,better color etc. it never made one change to my TV, in fact I think it messed reception ....I wasn't one to get black box,I had Cable,now have Direct TV and its not any better.... I think muh-bama is monitoring us with the new TV watcher/listener thing.....( hope he is,he sure gets my opinion of him every now and then... some times daily).. Did you hear ga ga singing (Tape I think ) from WH during the nation wide elert stuff..does anyone think that witch singing nation wide to every listener was a boo boo.. I don't think so ,either it had a message,or muh-bama was doing a test from WH to see if it worked... k.... I'll get back to normal now ;D

True Janet...

I believe, in the near future, you will not be able to 'license' your car without the blackbox...

They will be controlling how many miles one can drive,and how much gas one can have...while O traveling in his BEAST...probably 5 miles to a gallon...

Janet, we 'think' alike...Sis...