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General notes
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 situa-
tions, such as an air bag deployment or hitting a
road obstacle, data that will assist in understand-
ing how a vehicle's systems performed. The EDR
is designed to record data related to vehicle
dynamics and safety systems 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 your vehicle were
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operating;
Whether or not the driver and passenger
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safety belts were buckled/fastened;
How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the
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accelerator and/or brake pedal; and,
How fast the vehicle was traveling.
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These data can help provide a better understand-
ing of the circumstances in which crashes and
injuries occur. NOTE: EDR data are recorded 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 combine the EDR data with
the type of personally identifying data routinely
acquired during a crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special equip-
ment is required, and access to the vehicle or the
EDR is needed. In addition to the vehicle manu-
facturer, other parties, such as law enforcement,
that have the special equipment, can read the
information if they have access to the vehicle or
the EDR.
EDR data may be used in civil and criminal mat-
ters as a tool in accident reconstruction, accident
claims, and vehicle safety. Since the Crash Data
Retrieval CDR tool that is used to extract data
from the EDR is commercially available,
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC („MBUSA") expressly
disclaims any and all liability arising from the
extraction of this information by unauthorized
Mercedes-Benz personnel.
MBUSA will not share EDR data with others with-
out the consent of the vehicle owners or, if the
vehicle is leased, without the consent of the les-
see. Exceptions to this representation include
responses to subpoenas by law enforcement; by
federal, state or local government; in connection
with or arising out of litigation involving MBUSA or
its subsidiaries and affiliates; or, as required by
law.
Warning: The EDR is a component of the Restraint
System Module. Tampering with, altering, modify-
ing or removing the EDR component may result in
a malfunction of the Restraint System Module and
other systems.
State laws or regulations regarding EDRs that
conflict with federal regulation are pre\-empted.
This means that in the event of such conflict, the
federal regulation governs. As of Dec 2016, 17
states have enacted laws relating to EDRs.
Copyright
Free and open source software
Information on licenses for free and open-source
software used in your vehicle can be found on the
data carrier in your vehicle document wallet and
with updates on the following website:
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/opensource
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