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Intelligent
technology
Intelligent
technology
Notice
about
data
recorded
by the
Event
Data
Recorder
and
vehicle
control
modules
Event Data Recorder
This vehicle is equipped with an Event Data
Recorder (EDR). The main purpose of an EDR
is to record, in certain crash or near crash-like
situations, such as an airbag deployment or
hitting a road obstacle, data that will assist in
understand ing how a veh icle's systems per-
formed. The EDR is designed to record data
related to vehicle dynamics and safety sys-
tems for a short period of time, typically
30 seconds or less. The EDR in this vehicle is
designed to record such data as:
- How various systems in you r vehicle were
operating;
- Whether or not the driver and passenger
safety belts were buckled/fastened;
- How far (if at all) the dr iver was dep ressing
the accelerator and/or brake pedal; and,
- How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These data can help provide a better under-
stand ing of the circumstances in which crash-
es and injuries occur. NOTE : EDR data are re-
corded by your vehicle only if a non-trivial
crash situation occurs; no data are recorded by
the EDR under normal driving conditions and
no personal data (e.g., name, gender, age,
and crash location) are recorded. However,
other parties, such as law enforcement, could
comb ine the EDR data with the type of per-
sonally identifying data routinely acquired
during a crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special
equipment is required, and access to the vehi-
cle or the EDR is needed. In addition to the ve-
hicle manufacturer, other parties, such as law
enforcement, that have the special equip-
ment, can read the information if they have
access to the vehicle or the EDR.
Some state laws restrict the retrieval or down-
loading of data stored by ED Rs installed in a
vehicle for the express purpose of retrieving
data after an accident or crash event without
the owner's consent .
Audi will not access the EDR and/or simi lar
data or give it to others -
- un less the vehicle owner (or lessee if the ve-
hicle has been leased) agrees; or
- upon the official request by the police; or
- upon the order of a court of law or a govern-
ment agency; or
- for the defense of a lawsuit through the ju-
dicia l discovery process.
- Audi may also use the data for research
about vehicle operat ion and safety perform-
ance or provide the data to a third party for
research purposes without identifying the
specif ic vehicle or information about the
identity of its owner or lessee and only after
the recorded vehicle data has been ac-
cessed.
Vehicle control modules
Your vehicle is also equ ipped with a number of
electron ic control modules for various vehicle
systems, such as engine management, emis-
sion control, airbags, and safety belts.
These electronic control mod ules record data
during norma l vehicle operation that may be
needed by trained technicians for diagnostic
and repair purposes. The recording capability
of these modu les is limited to data (no sound
is recorded). Only a small amount of data is
actually recorded over a very lim ited period of
t ime, or stored when a system fault is detect-
ed by a contro l modu le. Some of the data
stored may relate to vehicle speed, direction,
or braking, as well as restraint system use and
performance in the event of a crash. Stored
data can also only be read and downloaded
with special equipment that is directly con-
nected to the vehicle.
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