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Introduction
VEHICLE DATA COLLECTION AND EVENT DATA RECORDERS
Your Hyundai vehicle is equipped with
many high technology, electronically con-
trolled systems that help to ensure your
vehicle operates properly and provides
the performance that you expect. These
systems utilize computers to monitor the
operation of various systems and com-
ponents and help to control their opera-
tion. These computerized system opera-
tions are wide-ranging and involve com-
ponents to reduce emissions, to continu-
ously evaluate the readiness of the
airbag and seat belt pretensioner sys-
tems, to determine when the airbag and
seat belt pre-tensioner systems should
be deployed and then to activate the
deployment, and if equipped, to operate
anti-lock braking, traction control and
electrical stability control to assist the
driver to control the vehicle in difficult
driving situations. These systems elec-
tronically store information that is useful
to service technicians when they need to
diagnose and repair these systems.
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Additional information is stored only
when a crash occurs that results in the
deployment of the airbags or seat belt
pre-tensioners. This type of data storage
is done by devices called event data
recorders(EDR).
After a crash event, the airbag and seat
belt pre-tensioner computer system,
known as the Supplemental Restraint
System Control Module (SRSCM) or
Airbag Control Unit (ACU), may record
some information about the condition of
the vehicle and how it was being operat-
ed.
This information consists of data
related to seat belt usage and if there
was diagnostic information in the airbag
or seat belt systems at the time that a
crash occurred, and if the ACU sensed
that a crash of sufficient severity
occurred to require seat belt pre-tension-
er or airbag deployment.
To retrieve this information, special
equipment is needed and access to the
vehicle or the device that stores the data
is required.
Hyundai will not access
information about a crash event or share
it with others except:
• in response to an official request of
police or similar government office, or
• with the consent of the vehicle owner
or, if the vehicle is leased, with the con-
sent of the lessee, or
• as part of Hyundai's defense of litiga-
tion, or
• as required by law.
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