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l
ligent
Technology
Intelligent
Technology
Notice
about
data
recorded
by the
Event
Data
Recorder
and
vehicle
control
modules
Event Data Recorder
This vehicle is equipped
wit
h an Event Data
Re-
corder
(EDR).
The main purpose of an EDR is to
record, in certain crash or near crash -like situa-
tions, such as an airbag deploym ent or hitting a
road obstacle, data that will assist in understand-
ing how a veh icle 's systems performed
.
The EDR
is designed to record data related to veh icle dy-
namics a nd safety systems for a sho rt period of
time, typically 30 seconds or less
.
The EDR in this
veh icle is designed to reco rd such data as
:
-
How various systems in your vehicle were oper-
at ing;
-
Whether or not the driver and passenger safety
belts were buckled/fastened;
-
How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the
acce lerator and/or brake peda l; and,
-
How fast the ve hicle was trave ling.
These data can help provide a better understand-
ing of the circumstances in which crashes and
in-
juries occur.
NOTE:
EDR data are recorded by yo ur
veh icle only if a non-trivia
l
crash situat ion occurs;
no data are recorded by the EDR under normal
driving conditions and no personal data (e .g .,
name, gender, age, and crash location) a re re-
corded
.
However
,
other pa rties
,
such as law en-
forcement, cou ld combine
t
he EDR data w it
h
the
type
of
person
a
lly identifyi ng dat
a
routine ly ac-
qu ired dur ing a crash invest igat ion
.
To read data reco rded by an EDR, specia
l
equip-
men
t
is req uire d, and access to the veh icle or
t
he
EDR is needed. In ad dit ion
t
o
t
he vehicle manu-
facturer, other parties,
such
as law enforcement,
that have t he specia
l
equipment, can read the in-
formation if they have access to the vehicle or the
EDR.
Some
st
ate laws restrict
t
he re
t
rieva
l
or down-
loading of data stored by ED Rs insta lled in a vehi
-
cle fo
r
the express purpose of retrieving data af
-
158
te
r
an accident or crash event withou
t
the own
-
er 's consent.
Audi will not access
t
he EDR
a
nd/or sim
ilar
dat
a
o
r
g ive it
t
o others
-
-
unless t he ve hicle ow ner (o
r
lessee if the vehi-
cle has been leased) ag rees;
or
-
upon the offic ial 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 jud icia
l
discovery process.
-
Audi may also use the data for research about
veh icle operation and safety perfo rmance or
prov ide the data to a th ird party for research
purposes w itho ut identify ing t he specific vehi-
cle or info rmat ion about the ident ity of its own-
er or lessee and only afte
r
t he re co rded vehicle
data has been accessed.
Vehicle control modules
Your
vehicle is also equ ipped with a number of
electronic cont rol modules for va rious vehicle
syste
m
s, such as engine ma nagement, em iss io
n
contro l, air bag s,
a nd
safety be lts.
These electronic control modules record data
dur ing norma
l
vehicle operation t hat may be
needed by tra ined techn icians for d iagnost ic and
rep
air
pur poses. The re cording capab ility of these
modules is lim ited
t
o dat
a
(no sou
nd
is recor
d-
ed). Only a sma
ll
amount of data is actually re
-
corded over a very limited period of time, or stor-
ed when a system fault is detected by a contro
l
module
.
Some of the data stored may relate to
vehicle speed, direction, or braking, as well as re-
straint system use and performance
in the event
of a crash
.
Stored data can also only be read a nd
down loaded w it
h
specia
l
equipment that is d i-
rec
t
ly connec
t
ed to
t
he vehicle.
(D
Tips
Your vehicle may be
equi
pped w it
h
Aud
i
con-
nect
.
Your
use of certain Aud
i
connect fea-
tures requires wire less services
t
hat are pro-
vided by a third party wireless telecomm uni-
cations provider.
For
de
t
ails regarding how
in-
fo rmation obtained through Aud
i
connect is
collecte d, processe d, transmitted,
use d, an
d
..,.
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