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A Spy Under the Hood: Controlling Risk and Automotive EDR
By Thom, Peter R,MacCarley, C Arthur
Publication: Risk Management
Date: Friday, February 1 2008
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Meet the automotive version of a black box-a small, metal-clad
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and UPC-stamped case of circuitry that monitors and records the operation of a car's supplemental restraint system, or as it is more commonly known, the airbags. Its nondescript packaging understates its function and impact. This particular application of automotive event data recording (EDR) is inciting complaints of privacy invasion by the media and public, even as it delivers unequaled insight into the interactions of a driver and car during an accident.
For the risk manager who must anticipate and quantify the dynamic effects of this technology, "automotive-EDR is an example of how the positive and negative consequences of new technology ripple through a business environment. From one perspective,"automotive EDR amplifies the capacity to identify and control risk, and from another view, the burgeoning technology is intrusive and can be misleading, especially as it grows in ways and usage unanticipated by designers.
What does the risk manager who will harness the information gleaned from EDR need to know in order to use the data effectively? The first step is to gain an understanding of the current capabilities and limitations of automotive event data recorders and to see the distinctions between EDR modules in airbags and similar technology in other automotive systems.
Inevitably, risk managers will look at airbag EDR data over any of the others because, at least for now, that data is most accessible and relevant to accident investigations. Beyond that, a keen understanding of the public policy ramifications of automotive EDR will guide the risk manager through its judicious use.
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