Only drivers can prevent accidents

Only drivers themselves, and not technology such as event data recorders, can prevent road accidents happening, a motoring expert has said.

Proposed black box technology would not directly prevent road accidents, an expert has said.

Peter Rodger, chief examiner at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, noted, that this is instead down to motorists.

He made this comment in reaction to news that the European Commission is looking into installing black boxes, similar to those on planes, in cars.

The technology, which is known as event data recorders, could record several different driver actions such as speed, braking and indication.

Mr Rodger said: “What we have to remember is that these things will not prevent accidents. A black box tells you what happened. What prevents the accident is the driver and the effect that the technology has on the driver.”

He added that the only impact the technology would have on motorists would be the cultural factor of knowing that motorists, such as car hire users, were being monitored by the black box.

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