The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled in a case of first impression that information retrieved from a vehicle’s “event data recorder”—akin to an airplane’s “black box”—is admissible to establish a vehicle’s speed prior to a crash.
In a memorandum decision in Commonwealth v. Safka, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled that EDR technology is not novel science and is therefore admissible under the test established by the 1923 U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit case Frye v. United States.
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