Black box will be the most important part on future transport vehicles

At the present time, most traffic accidents are caused by the driver's fault. There may also be some exceptions such as loss of brakes, explosion of tires . but according to statistics, 90% of traffic accidents are caused by people.

In the not too distant future, the cause of an accident will be clearer if all data is recorded in a black box.

In the US, in September 2014, all newly produced passenger vehicles were required to equip a black box. In Vietnam, currently, according to the regulations of the Ministry of Transport, all types of passenger and transport business vehicles are required to equip black boxes.

Black box (blackbox) is a device that records all vehicle information such as speed, braking, airbag activity, seat belt . all of these parameters are recorded by sensors. In the car, it also records GPS data, trip logs . But all this is really not enough.

After the accident, the black box can provide information such as the seat position and even the radio channel you listen to.

More and more sensors are mounted in the car, and so they bring a lot of information. Tuxera - a company that has developed the NTFS file reader for MAC - has created a new black box system on self-propelled cars that can record data of 16 sensors at the same time, including Tire pressure sensors, camera images, car radar data and driver information . Thus, after the accident, the black box can provide information such as seat position and even even the radio channel you listen to.

The cars become more and more intelligent, meaning that more sensors are attached to the car, which leads to a black box to store more information, such as the distance to the vehicle in front, the markings Roads, traffic lights, traffic conditions, and nearly all other things are present around the car. Tuxera uses a flash memory to ensure the information is kept safe even if the electrical system is interrupted at the time of the accident.

Currently, the black box is an indispensable device to determine the exact cause of the accident.

A few days ago, in Vietnam there was a catastrophic accident when two passenger cars collided and then burned, killing 12 human lives. According to the data from the black box, the cars are running at the right speed. So what caused 12 people to die unjustly? If there is more information from the black box like the lane, the driver using the phone or not, the condition of the wheel slip . then there will probably be the correct answer for this catastrophic accident.

In the future, when self-propelled passenger vehicles become popular, perhaps passengers will no longer have to look around for fear. The driver's mistake will be left aside, things like drunken driver or sleepiness will have no chance to cause an accident. But it is still a relatively distant dream right now.

Currently, the black box is an indispensable device to determine the exact cause of the accident. And Tuxera makes a black box system that stores more information than is quite a good news. Tuxera is expected to complete this system by 2020 and will be equipped first on self-propelled models.