I created a new market category called CRASH-ZONE CYBERSECURITY!

GOAL: Empower the vehicle owner with ‘black box’ cybersecurity

There are five modes of transportation in America: Aviation, Railroad, Marine, Pipeline and Highway.

Each mode uses data recorders. Aviation was the first and Highway is the latest and most controversial.

From 1998 to 2015, I helped put automotive ‘black box’ Event Data Recorders (EDRs) in cars and light trucks. Today, they are in 9 out of 10 new vehicles in America.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cites 91.6% of new cars and light trucks include EDRs to record a vehicle’s dynamic time-series data just prior to or during a crash, intended for retrieval after the crash.

Actually, many post-1996 vehicles have EDRs.

To get this technology in vehicles took an eighteen-year struggle for standardization, legislation, regulation, technical innovation, and legal case law. It was a windy road and bumpy ride.

I wrote FATAL EXIT: The Automotive Black Box Debate which details how challenging it was to set the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) global standard for EDR devices.