Chevrolet Astro II 2 owners manual page 358

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Vehicle Data Collection and Event To read this information, special equipment is needed Data Recorders and access to the vehicle or the device that stores the data is required. GM will not access information Yourvehicle, like other modern motor vehicles, has aabout a crash event or share it with others other than: numberofsophisticatedcomputersystemsthatmonitor• with the consent of the vehicle owner or, if the andcontrol several aspects of the vehicle’s performance.vehicle is leased, with the consent of the lessee, Yourvehicle uses on-board vehicle computers to monitor• in response to an official request of police or similar emission control components to optimize fuel economy,government office, to monitor conditions for airbag deployment and, if so• as part of GM’s defense of litigation through the equipped, to provide anti-lock braking and to help thediscovery process, or driver control the vehicle in difficult driving situations. Someinformationmaybestoredduringregular• as required by law. operations to facilitate repair of detected malfunctions;In addition, once GM collects or receives data, GM may: other information is stored only in a crash event by computersystems,suchasthosecommonlycalledevent• use the data for GM research needs, data recorders (EDR). • make it available for research where appropriate In a crash event, computer systems, such as the Airbagconﬁdentiality is to be maintained and need is SensingandDiagnosticModule(SDM)inyourvehicleshown, or mayrecordinformationabouttheconditionofthevehicle• share summary data which is not tied to a speciﬁc andhowitwasoperated,suchasdatarelatedtoenginevehicle with non-GM organizations for research speed,brakeapplication, throttle position, vehicle speed,purposes. safety belt usage, airbag readiness, airbag performance, andtheseverityofacollision. This information has beenOthers, such as law enforcement, may have access to usedtoimprovevehiclecrashperformanceandmaybethe special equipment that can read the information usedtoimprovecrashperformanceoffuturevehiclesif they have access to the vehicle or the device anddriving safety. Unlike the data recorders on manythat stores the data. airplanes, these on-board systems do not record sounds, suchasconversationofvehicleoccupants. 7-10

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