CNET On Cars - Black box: The snitch inside your car

For years, some automakers have installed a black box in your car, recording the data and analyzing your driving habits. But soon the federal government will require all vehicles to have them. Will such a device help or hurt you? CNET's Brian Cooley explains.

[BasicAndroid]

Using the all seeing eye to symbolise how this box is spying on us all... Nicely played.

[TheSupercat]

Solution: disconnect the battery and wait 15 minutes. Then unplug the harness connected to the box. Reconnect battery, start car and wait for the airbag light to turn on. Get odb scanner and shut it off voila.

[Ralphk]

Wish you told us how to access them. but thanks for letting me know it exist in my car.

[TJWasiuk]

Reminded me of a Bill Nye segment. More videos like this please.

[pathsgo]

It's not a snitch, It can in fact protect the driver in case of an accident, unless... the driver is behaving in a criminal or unlawful way, if that's the case, nothing to feel pity about

[timothykramer]

Priests in the government's going to know exactly where we're going

[Buffster]

What if you disconnect it, or can you and the car still operate?

[timex]

if its a problem find out where and how to take it out. before it gets junked

[rustystaley]

What would being on a cell have to do with the air bags? 🤔

[austinr]

What year(s) were these first implemented in cars?

[MrVnick]

So are they good or not, It's like your best friend who's got your back, but is spying on you at all times.

[PT]

How's it going to record your cellphone usage? And how would it be able to tell if it's your phone or the phone from the car next to you?

[KyleBrook]

It's weird looking at the car at 0:50, and seeing Buick Badges on what in the UK is a Vauxhall (Opel Originally). Its 1:1 but with different badges, and it weirds me out xD

[kunalsamani]

How can you hack a black box used by insurance companies

[kruegersix]

0:41 this might sound weird but why is there a illuminati

[TriPham-xdwk]

That a top secret information but both the Justice department must instal its own extra black box for all U.S. government employee, politician, and soldiers for catching bigger fish that try to play with Justice

[FodorPupil]

Cool!! I was hoping to see it hooked up to a computer or whatever tho

[yaer]

where can I find this thing in my car ?

[thedivinityman]

My last car got totaled and I took the black box out before the tow truck came, because I was hit by a Drunk Driver that was caught by my dash cam, and thats all the insurance company and the police need

[Matrix]

Its the all seeing eye. They put that background there on purpose to show how the blackbox is watching your activities in the car well not just the blackbox but the govt. as well duh!