Black boxes in vehicles!

**CharlesW** · 12-17-2005, 11:50 AM

I thought this might be of some interest to some of you.

The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged that they had covertly funded a project with the U.S. auto makers for the past 5 years, whereby the auto makers were installing black box voice recorders in four-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV`s in an effort to determine in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.

They were surprised to find in 44 of the 50 states the recorded last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh S***!"

Only the states of Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer, I`m gonna try somethin."

Charles

**norahcrv** · 12-17-2005, 11:53 AM

**cwcad** · 12-17-2005, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by norahcrv

Gave me a big chuckle when I ended up the post.

**GregCavi** · 12-17-2005, 01:05 PM

LOL!! too funny!

Greg

**Dozerboy** · 12-17-2005, 05:28 PM

I`ve said both of those a few times. :censored: :stuart:

**mtwedt** · 12-18-2005, 07:04 PM

I really got a kick out of this post until I went back and read it a bit more carefully. I noticed that the NTSB was recording voice data just prior to a fatal crash. What do you want to bet that some of these fools from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas etc....survived the crash and the people they hit didn`t?