Yes, Your New Car Has A 'Black Box.' Where's The Off Switch? : All Tech Considered Most newer cars have recorders that collect data at the moment of a crash and preserve key information.

Cellphones can track our conversations and whereabouts, but they're not the only devices that have gotten too smart for our own good. Uncle Sam is planning to mandate data recorders as standard ...

Dec. 9, 2012— -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would like to make it mandatory for automakers to install a so-called "black box" in all new cars and light trucks.

Using a bunch of Volkswagen I.D4s, they found that the hard-shelled Thule Arcos box proved that it could eke out more range than cars fitted with a roof-mounted box, or nothing at all. Impressive ...