Kia Stinger 2023 - Vehicle Data Collection and Event Data Recorders

Introduction
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Vehicle data collection and event data recorders
Vehicle data collection and
event data recorders
This vehicle is equipped with an Event
Data Recorder (EDR). The main 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 obsta
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cle, 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:
僅 How various systems in your vehicle
were operating;
僅 Whether or not the driver and passen
-
ger safety belts were buckled/fas -
tened;
僅 How far (if at all) the driver was
depressing the accelerator and/or
brake pedal; and,
僅 How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These data can help provide a better
understanding of the circumstances in
which crashes and injuries occur. NOTE:
EDR data are recorded by your vehicle
only if a non-trivial crash situation
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. How
-
ever, other parties, such as law enforce -
ment, could combine the EDR data with
the type of personally identifying data
routinely acquired during a crash inves -
tigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, spe -
cial equipment is required, and access to
the vehicle or the EDR is needed. In addi -
tion 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.