Recently, according to media reports, the latest notice issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that from January 1, 2022, newly produced passenger cars need to be equipped with a "car black box" EDR system, that is, a driving event recorder.
For the concept of EDR, many car owners are not yet aware, it is a car event data recording system, used to record the vehicle's key operating data (including speed, ABS status, seat belt status, etc.) in the three stages before, during and after the collision.
The various driving recorders on the market only record video information, GPS data, etc., and cannot record the operating status of the vehicle.
Thus, EDR is similar to a black box on an airplane, with the information it records that reproduces the course of an accident for automotive accident analysis, and it is not a concept with traditional on-board video recorders.
Of course, there are also netizens who are worried about their privacy being violated, but in general, EDR only involves the recording and extraction of data, and generally does not record audio or video in China.
It is understood that China's EDR standard was determined at the end of November 2019, and the participating units of the standard cover mainstream car companies such as SAIC, Geely, Dongfeng, FAW, Changan, and Weilai.
At present, many countries have written passenger cars equipped with EDR into the bill or industry standard, of which the United States as early as 2014 made it clear that all new cars need to be mandatorily equipped with EDR, South Korea has been mandatory to install EDR since December 2015, Europe requires mandatory installation of new cars in March 2022, and plans to equip stock cars in 2024.
