WASHINGTON—U.S. auto regulators said Wednesday they want to require automakers to collect more crash data from event data recorders (EDRs)—more commonly known as “black boxes.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday proposed requiring black boxes to collect 20 seconds of pre-crash data at a higher frequency rate to help better understand the actions that lead to a crash.
NHTSA currently requires five seconds of pre-crash data at a slower collection rate for vehicles with EDRs.
The agency had studied adopting the regulation for more than three years—as required by Congress under a 2015 law. NHTSA was supposed to have finalized the new data collection rules by 2020….