My wife is a claims adjuster for one of the largest private insurance companies here in the US ( one of the reasons that I don't worry about my driving. I would never hear the end of it if I messed up. LOL ), and last night I thought to ask her about the black boxes.
It took me 10 min. of explaining as to what I was talking about, because she had never heard of them before, so the company that she work for doesn't use the boxes to check up on the accadent reports. According to her and her co workers, there is usually enough 'other' evidence to be able to make a deterimation as to fault. I have been thinking about the accuracy of these black boxes, and while they might be useful in some cases, in many cases they would be of no use especially in places that are subject to bad weather, and slippery roads are common. Just earlier this winter, on the way to church early one Sunday morning, after a day of wet snow and a hard freeze that night. We were going up hill, and I took my foot off of the accelerator to use what was left of the momentum of the vehicle to top the hill. By the time we made it to the top of the hill, we were so slow, the speedometer, was just barely registering, when we hit something ( pot hole, rock, piece of wood ? ) hidden under the snow, and started to slide. Almost a whole minute to slide down the other side of the hill ( a long gentle slope ) sideways. Accelerator was 0%, brake was 0%, and speed was 0. All because the city decided that the snow crews could sleep in that morning. Greg H. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
