WHAAAAT ?!
Just done watching the evening news on TV, well, I don't have a TV but it's streamed live from their website so not much difference.
They say that starting this summer, Europe is imposing on every new car sold, the fitment of
flight driving data recorder ! Big Brother is watching you... FOR REAL !!
As always they say it's for your "safety" ! Said it will record only the last 30 seconds prior to an accident, and 10 seconds after that. Parameters recorded are speed, acceleration, engine RPM, use of the blinker, and G force of the impact. No voice recording nor GPS data... for now... but now that the Pandora box has been opened, sure enough they will fill it with more and more data as years pass...
They also say that this thing is already installed in cars in the US, since 2014, and that it saved many lives ?!
Not that I care too much since the way things are going I soon won't be able to run a car at all anymore, hence won't be able to go to work, so that's going to be soon a rich people's problem, not mine anymore.
I am usually not the one to start off-topic stuff, but well I didn't know it was coming, so was truly shocked to hear that, I had to vent sorry... plus, of course this recorder is an electronic box so it is relevant here after all !
I just wish they didn't waste scarce electronic components to build yet another freaking electronic computer into freaking cars, and instead manufactured more caps so I can find the freaking caps I need to fix my TE !!!!
That was all