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From: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car electronics projects (another idea)
Keywords: black box
Message-ID: <14216@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 22:56:12 GMT
References: <21012@cup.portal.com> <6698@dayton.UUCP>
Reply-To: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup)
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In article <6698@dayton.UUCP> jad@dayton.UUCP (J. Deters) says:
>One of my pet ideas for the last x years has been to build my own
>'black box' a la flight recorder. Useful in an accident situation, and
>also for those few instances when you get one of the redneck state troopers
>calling you names.  :)
>J. Deters - jad@dayton.DHDSC.MN.ORG

Yeah, but I bet it would only help *you* feel better that you *alone* knew
that the other guy was responsible for destroying your 3-day old new car.
If you tried to use it as evidence, the lawyers would throw it so far
out of court it would go into orbit. Certification, and all that jazz.

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Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, Interactive Systems, Cambridge MA
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