RECORDING OF OPERATIONAL EVENTS IN AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE

摘要

An apparatus and method for recording operational events in an automotive radar system (1). The invention provides an Event Recording Apparatus (ERA) (5) that records selectable vehicle performance, operational status, and/or environment information, including information useful for accident analysis and updated software for use by a system processor (22) capable of reading data from the ERA (5). The preferred embodiment of the ERA (5) comprises a non-volatile solid-state memory card (20), a memory card adapter (21) located in a vehicle, and a microprocessor (22), either as part of the memory card (20) or embedded in a system within the vehicle, for controlling the storage of data within the memory card (20).