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Old Nov 16, 2006 | 04:56 PM
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What MYCROSS is referring to is black box technology which many auto manufactures have been installing for years and that what the National Transportation Safety Board want to mandate to be installed in ALL cars. There are benefits that can be gained from this technology, but the presence of this technology can also be incriminating. Here is a blip from the Fox New website:
Black boxes, or "EDRs" have been fitted into every General Motors car in its 2004 line and is in a number of Ford models — about 15 percent of all vehicles on the road today, according to road safety experts.
EDRs are certainly not new. Information gathered on black boxes — typically everything from speed, brake pressure, seat belt use and air bag deployment — has already been used in determining guilt in criminal and civil cases across the country.
You can read the entire article here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132056,00.html

I can't say whether our car actually does or does not have an Event Data Recorder (EDR). Many of the manufactures are reluctant to release whether they are or are not installing them into the cars. However, MYCROSS's concerns are justified because if there is an EDR installed the throttle response curve will be different. The real question is would DC provide a dealership with comparison data throttle response with the Sprint Booster and without? I guess that would depend on the amount of the repair.

With all that said I have the extended warranty and before the car comes out of storage next spring I plan on installing the Sprint Booster. Then again I routinely drive my car at speed in excess of a 100 mph. Definitely my judgment is flawed but I figure life is too short to let the grass grow under your feet and there is nothing worse then an opportunity missed.
 
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