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from owners manual to the vehicle Smart Fortwo, year of production 2008:
>> Introduction.
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that a safety defect exists in a group ofThe EDR in this vehicle is designed to
vehicles, it may order a recall and remedyrecord such data as:
campaign. However, NHTSA cannot become
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how various systems in your vehicle are
involved in individual problems between
operating
you, your dealer, or Mercedes-Benz USA
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whether or not the driver and passenger
LLC.
seat belts are fastened
To contact NHTSA, you may call the Vehicle
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howfar(ifatall) the driver is depress-
Safety Hotline toll-free at 1-888-327-4236
ing the accelerator and/or brake pedal
(TTY: 1-800-424-9153); go to
and
http://www.safercar.gov ; or write to:
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how fast the vehicle is traveling
Administrator, NHTSA Headquarters, 1200
Thisdatacanhelpprovideabetterunder-
NewJerseyAvenue, SE, West Building,
standing of the circumstances in which
Washington, DC 20590. You can also obtain
crashesandinjuriesoccur.NOTE:EDRdata
other information about motor vehicle
is recorded by your vehicle only if a non-
safety from http://www.safercar.gov.
trivial crash situation occurs; no data is
recorded by the EDR under normal driving
Vehicle data recording conditions and no personal data (e.g.,
name, gender, age, and crash location) are
Data recording
recorded. However, other parties, such as
law enforcement, can combine the EDR data
Thisvehicleiscapableofrecordingdiag-
with the type of personal identification
nostic information relating to vehicle
data routinely acquired during a crash
operation, malfunctions, and user set-
investigation.
tings. This may include information about
the performance or status of various sys-To read data recorded by an EDR, special
tems,includingbutnotlimitedto,engine,equipment is required, and access to the
throttle, steeringorbrakesystems,thatisvehicleortheEDRisneeded.Inadditionto
stored and can be read out with suitablethe vehicle manufacturer, other parties
devices, particularly when the vehicle isthat have the special equipment, such as
serviced. The data obtained is used tolaw enforcement, can read the information
properly diagnose and service your vehi-by accessing the vehicle or the EDR.
cle or to further optimize and develop
EDRdatamaybeusedincivilandcriminal
vehicle functions.
matters as a tool in accident reconstruc-
tion, accident claims, and vehicle safety.
Since the Crash Data Retrieval CDR tool
Event data recorders
that is used to extract data from the EDR is
commercially available, Mercedes-Benz
Thisvehicleisequippedwithaneventdata
USA, LLC ("MBUSA") expressly disclaims
recorder(EDR).ThemainpurposeofanEDR
any and all liability arising from the
istorecorddatathatwillassistinunder-
extraction of this information by unau-
standinghowavehicle’ssystemsperformed
thorized Mercedes-Benz personnel.
in certain crash or near crash-like situa-
MBUSAwillnotshareEDRdatawithothers
tions,suchasduringairbagdeploymentor
without the consent of the vehicle owners
when hitting a road obstacle. The EDR is
or, if the vehicle is leased, without the
designed to record data related to vehicle
consent of the lessee. Exceptions to this
dynamics and safety systems for a short
representation include responses to sub-
period of time, typically 30 seconds or
poenas by law enforcement; by federal,
less.
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