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...CLAYBROOK: More than 40,000 people die each year on the highways. Data from event data recorders (EDRs) is crucial for safety engineers. The EDRs record only a few seconds of data if a crash occurs - otherwise they continually erase the data they register. NHTSA proposes to standardize some of the elements that an EDR records. Also, automakers don't have the same downloading systems, but there should be a standard system...
...Nassau County, N.Y., courtroom last year, almost everyone wept when Blake Slade and Kyle Soukup were sentenced to three years in prison. The youths cried as they apologized. The families of the betrothed who died in the Muttontown crash spoke of justice and forgiveness. Even the judge dabbed his eyes and choked...
...defense remain bitterly divided over the role of the black box. Slade's father Richard calls it "a violation of civil rights," while the assistant district attorney, Michael Walsh, praises it as "the strongest piece of evidence in the case." Neither had heard of EDRs before the crash, but today both agree on one point: motorists should be aware that their cars have recorders, and it's to be hoped that the knowledge will encourage them to drive safely. "Otherwise," Slade warns, "the black box can come back to haunt...
...seal a victory over Costa Rica, Ecuador's Ivan Kaviedes pulled out a Spider-Man mask from his shorts, donned it and danced across the field, to the cheers of Ecuadorian fans. He did so in the memory of teammate Otilino (Spider-Man) Tenorio, killed in a 2005 car crash. But Marvel Entertainment executives took Kaviedes' tribute as their own. For a comic-book publisher, it marked a feat of superhero proportions: in less than a decade, the company had pulled itself out of bankruptcy to re-establish its global brand. "We've made Spider-Man beloved in even...
...museum's reconstructed WWII Igloo hangar, the P-39 occupies pride of place. Beck battled bureaucrats and rival collectors to take possession of the plane after it was salvaged from Cape York, where it crash-landed with five other fighters in May 1942. "When I die," says the 67-year-old, only half joking, "I want my ashes placed in the cockpit...