Popularly known as "black boxes," event data recorders (EDRs) have helped investigators solve the mysteries of airplane crashes for decades. Now they've become standard in almost every new car sold.

Due to the ongoing NHTSA investigation and several lawsuits involving Toyota, the automaker's in-car "black box" data is coming into the spotlight. However, the Associated Press has conducted an ...

If you’ve ever been in a car crash, you know a lot can happen in seconds. State and local police accident re-construction teams scour every detail. Now, the ...

There’s notably less BMW brake squeal as that little black box does a majority of the work as we hurtle around ... s lineup – from SUVs to sports cars. “The question is, what does driving ...

In 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed requiring cars that do have black boxes to store 20 seconds of pre-crash data, an increase from the previous ...