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Vehicle reactions and operating condi-asduringairbagdeploymentorwhenhitting
tions in special driving situations,aroadobstacle.TheEDRisdesignedtorecord
including, for instance, deployment of andata related to vehicle dynamics and safety
air bag, use of stability control systemssystems for a short period of time, typically
30 seconds or less.
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Environmental conditions, including, for
instance, the outside temperatureTheEDRinthisvehicleisdesignedtorecord
such data as:
This data is of an exclusively technical
nature and can be used to:
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howvarious systems in your vehicle are
operating
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assist in the detection and elimination of
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malfunctions and defects whether or not the driver and passenger
seat belts are fastened
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analyze vehicle functions, e.g. after an
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accident howfar(ifatall)thedriverisdepressing
the accelerator and/or brake pedal and
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optimize vehicle functions
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howfast the vehicle is traveling
Thedatacannotbeusedtotracethevehicle's
movements. This data can help provide a better under-
standing of the circumstances in which
If you have the vehicle serviced, this tech-
crashesandinjuriesoccur.NOTE:EDRdatais
nical information can be read out from the
recordedbyyourvehicleonlyifanontrivial
event and malfunction data memory.
crashsituationoccurs.Nodataisrecordedby
Services include, for example, information
the EDR under normal driving conditions. No
on:
personal data (e.g., name, gender, age, and
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Repair work
accident location) are recorded. However,
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Service work
combinetheEDRdatawiththetypeofper-
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Warranty claims
sonalidentificationdataroutinelyacquired
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Quality assurance
duringacrashinvestigation.EDRdatamaybe
The readout is handled by service network
usedincivilandcriminalmattersasatoolin
staff (including the manufacturer) with the
accident reconstruction, accident claims,
help of special diagnostic testers. You can
and vehicle safety.
obtain more detailed information, if
To read data recorded by an EDR, special
required.
equipment is required, and access to the
Afterthemalfunctionhasbeenrectified,the
vehicle or the EDR is needed. In addition to
information is cleared in the malfunction
the vehicle manufacturer, other parties that
memoryorissequentiallyoverwritten.
have the special equipment, such as law
Duringvehicleoperation,certainsituations
enforcement, can read the information by
mayariseinwhichthistechnicaldata-in
accessing the vehicle or the EDR.
conjunction with other information and, if
EDRdatamaybeusedincivilandcriminal
applicable, after consultation with an
matters as a tool in accident reconstruction,
approvedassessor-maybelinkedtoanindi-
accident claims, and vehicle safety. Since
vidual person.
theCrashDataRetrievalCDRtoolthatisused
Examples of this include:
to extract data from the EDR is commercially
available, Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
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Accident reports
("MBUSA") expressly disclaims any and all
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Vehicle damage
liability arising from the extraction of this
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Evidence
information by unauthorized Mercedes-Benz
personnel.
MBUSAwillnotshareEDRdatawithothers
Event data recorders
without the consent of the vehicle owners or,
if the vehicle is leased, without the consent
This vehicle is equipped with an event data
of the lessee. Exceptions to this representa-
recorder(EDR).ThemainpurposeofanEDRis
tion include responses to subpoenas by law
torecorddatathatwillassistinunderstand-
enforcement; by federal, state or local gov-
inghowavehicle’ssystemsperformedincer-
ernment;inconnectionwithorarisingoutof
taincrashornearcrash-likesituations,such
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