Caporegime
Trucks have had this feature for years - I don't by this mean the tachograph.
Am surpised cars do not log their speed these days
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Can you elaborate on this?
Man of Honour
Cars that track speed and automatically contact your local police station via wifi if you go over the speed limit 
Scarily can imagine that sort of thing in the future.
Scarily can imagine that sort of thing in the future.
I dunno about the bigger stuff - I think they use another system - but out medium sized ones are fully logged with SkyGuard. Some legal issues ongoing at the moment though over it.
Caporegime
Scania’s since 2005 - and others - have had live recording of average speed, actual speed, harsh braking even if enough of a gap is been kept between the truck and the vehicle in front at any given interval, average mpg etc etc all through the on board computer.
A driver can reset it but the data stays with the vehicle, for how long though I don’t know but I believe it’s long enough to be retrieved at 80,000 - 120,000km service intervals.
It’s stored locally ie on the vehicle but can be accessed by authorities in the event of an accident/incident afaik.
I wasn't aware of this, thanks. I suppose it makes sense if you've got sensitive cargo on board.
Dunno about where you work but I have remote access to all our vehicle's approx. position and an ETA for their current planned destination (which surprises some of the drivers who I assumed knew/agreed to that - management of that is above my pay grade) and if the vehicle flags an emergency it uploads more detailed information to the tracking company.
EDIT: I also have access to a system based around this https://www.microlise.com/blog/product-insight-dashboards/
I noticed there is some legal drama ongoing at the moment over this - not specific to where I work - over managers who have been accessing real time information and micro-managing their driver's taking them to task for every slight thing they disagree with
which is just crazy as you end up bleeding staff like crazy and then they are often bemoaning that they can't get good staff LOL!
Caporegime
We use microlise also but that’s for vehicle tracking afaik, the system I’m referring to is fitted as oem at the factory.Dunno about where you work but I have remote access to all our vehicle's approx. position and an ETA for their current planned destination (which surprises some of the drivers who I assumed knew/agreed to that - management of that is above my pay grade) and if the vehicle flags an emergency it uploads more detailed information to the tracking company.
EDIT: I also have access to a system based around this https://www.microlise.com/blog/product-insight-dashboards/
I noticed there is some legal drama ongoing at the moment over this - not specific to where I work - over managers who have been accessing real time information and micro-managing their driver's taking them to task for every slight thing they disagree with
I’m 99% sure my traffic office is unaware of the system because they are always phoning to ask where I am, I’ll often just say “ look at the ****ing tracker” and hang up!
Cars that track speed and automatically contact your local police station via wifi if you go over the speed limit
Scarily can imagine that sort of thing in the future.
If it ever gets to the stage where the car knows the current speed limit and your speed then the cars shouldn't be allowing you to go above the speed limit rather than dobbing you in.
I have told him it was because his missus was riding my ****. Teach him to mind his own business next time!
Dunno about where you work but I have remote access to all our vehicle's approx. position and an ETA for their current planned destination (which surprises some of the drivers who I assumed knew/agreed to that - management of that is above my pay grade) and if the vehicle flags an emergency it uploads more detailed information to the tracking company.
EDIT: I also have access to a system based around this https://www.microlise.com/blog/product-insight-dashboards/
I noticed there is some legal drama ongoing at the moment over this - not specific to where I work - over managers who have been accessing real time information and micro-managing their driver's taking them to task for every slight thing they disagree with
That is a GPS tracker which isn't something built in to production cars. But I suppose the rules have now changed with GDPR. You can't use it to "spy" on people any more. But it was never really meant for that anyway, it's for covering your arse if something happens.
Even if they agree to be monitored when taking the job, they can un-agree any time they want any there's nothing you can do about it. Stuff like this is kinda on dodgy ground now. The company owns the equipment, but they don't have an automatic right to monitor the operator any more.
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Depends what solution you go for - some of them are more or less integrated into the vehicle - from just rough positioning data through to complex telemetry - obviously not quite the black box embedded from the factory the OP was talking about but still.
Caporegime
Meh it was relevant. DPF regens were failing.
Do they phone up if you do burnouts and handbrake turns in it? That's how everyone drives hire cars right?
Like that age old question, what's the fastest car in the world? A hire car! They might log speed and position but I don't think they log lateral g-forces, at least not yet!
Sorry. But I guess with BMW connected drive and whatnot, BMW will be harvesting data like nobody's business.Had one with that stuff in. Still drove like a loon, had an accident (not my fault - my Mazda 6 decided to overreact to a gap wider than a bus and slammed on the brakes). Never heard anything.