Obama Bypasses Congress Again! Black Boxes In All Cars By 2014!

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What the devices can record is "virtually unlimited".  What can possibly go wrong?

Obama Bypasses Congress to Mandate Black Boxes for All Cars -- Beginning in '14
December 13, 2012 By Pete Winn

(CNSNews.com) - Bypassing Congress, the Obama administration has issued a proposed administrative rule, which if adopted, would mandate the installation of "black boxes" in all automobiles and light trucks beginning in 2014.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed the regulation on Dec. 7, which it said “would capture valuable safety-related data in the seconds before and during a motor vehicle crash.”
The proposed standard would require automakers to install event data recorders (EDRs) – so-called “black box devices” -- to collect specific safety related data in all light passenger vehicles beginning Sept. 1, 2014.
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