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Lawmakers limit crash data – Lawmakers are paying a lot of attention to some little-known technology that collects data during car crashes.
Arkansas, Nevada, North Dakota and Texas this year followed California ’s lead in limiting who can use information from Event Data Recorders (EDRs) — devices built into vehicles that can record a car’s speed and the response of seat belts, brakes and air bags in an accident.
“Like 95 percent of the citizenry, I didn’t know these devices were in automobiles,” said Arkansas state Sen. Jim Jeffress (D), a chief sponsor of the law in his state that specifies that data from EDRs belong solely to the car owner.