The fact that most cars and trucks come equipped with an event data recorder was news to me and most of the savvy friends and colleagues I surveyed. But EDRs have been onboard our vehicles for many years. The devices record a few seconds of information about your car or truck before, during and after an “event,” when the air bag goes off or when you hit the brakes hard. “They give a snapshot,” says John Davis, longtime host of MotorWeek on Maryland Public Television. “They are used in accident investigations just like the ‘black box’ on an airplane.”
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