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Originally posted by RawAlex@Aug 4 2004, 10:42 AM
Mike, if you are driving a GM vehicle, you already have a basic black box in there. The computer system records a certain amount of time that the car was running and keeps it in memory. One widely reported story had a guy gettting boned after an accident when the car said he was running about 3 times over the limit 3 seconds before impact.
I am a car guy, drive a GTI turbo now, but let me say this:
I find it funny that, in a country where the highest normal speed limit is 75, that cars are not governed or limited in any way. The number of 100MPH+ car chases, the number of young people killed in single car rollovers attributed to speed, etc, it's all pretty stunning. Automobile accidents are one of the highest killers in the 16 to 25 age group.
While I know it unlikely that this would ever happen in the "land of the free, and the home of the atlanta braves(!)", I am amazed that the ideas hasn
t come up more often in Washington.
I would be for black boxes, as long as they showed me where mine is so that I cna destroy next time they need data from it 
Alex
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Actually cars are governed. My sl55 caps out at 175, the escalade at 100, etc... But you are correct its not low speeds.
Amercian's love their cars, they love their power, and having large powerful engines with a lot of HP. I do not see this changing any time soon.
If anything the gov;t should make it more difficult to get a liscense and drive.
After movin to Tampa, I was shocked how bad the drives were here- WORSE then NO. I have seen more major multi-car accidents here in a year then a lifetime in NO! ( which shocking). Many times the cars are not even fast ones, it has more to do with people not knowing how to drive, or doing other things - an example.
2 days a go a mini-van in front of me was driving eratic on the interstate, going into other lanes, so I decided to jump past her - well as drive by some fat woman is actually reading a fucking BOOK!!! She also had her cell phone plugged into her ear. This woman should have been pulled over, beaten and had her car impounded!
It is not the cars, its the morons driving them!
Oh and its only a matte of time before some liberals start advocating gov't limits on cars....