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282 SAFETY
Event Data Recorder (EDR)
This vehicle is equipped with an event data recorder (EDR).
The mai
n purpose of an EDR is to record, in certain crash or
near crash-like situations, such as an air bag deployment or
hitting a road obstacle, data that will assist in understanding
how a vehicle’s systems performed. The EDR is designed to
record data related to vehicle dynamics and safety systems
for a short period of time, typically 30 seconds or less. The
EDR in this vehicle is designed to record such data as:
• How various systems in your vehicle were operating;
• Whethe
r or not the driver and passenger safety belts were
buckled
/fastened;
• How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the accelerator
and/or
brake pedal; and,
• How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These
data can help provide a better understanding of the
circums
tances in which crashes and injuries occur.
NOTE:
EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a non-trivial
c
rash s
ituation occurs; no data are recorded by the EDR
under normal driving conditions and no personal data (e.g.,
name, gender, age, and crash location) are recorded.
However, other parties, such as law enforcement, could
combine the EDR data with the type of personally identi
-
fying data routinely acquired during a crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special equipment is
require
d, and access to the vehicle or the EDR is needed. In
addition to the vehicle manufacturer, other parties, such as
law enforcement, that have the special equipment, can read
the information if they have access to the vehicle or the EDR.
Child Restraints
Everyone in your vehicle needs to be buckled up at all times,
including babies and children. Every state in the United
States, and every Canadian province, requires that small
children ride in proper restraint systems. This is the law, and
you can be prosecuted for ignoring it.
Children 12 years or younger should ride properly buckled
up in a
rear seat, if available. According to crash statistics,
children are safer when properly restrained in the rear seats
rather than in the front.
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