General notes
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The EDR in this vehicle is designed to record such ment, such as law enforcement, can read the
State laws or regulations regarding EDRs that
conꢁict with federal regulation are pre-empted.
data as:
information by accessing the vehicle or the EDR.
This means that in the event of such conꢁict, the
federal regulation governs. As of December 2016,
17 states have enacted laws relating to EDRs.
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How various systems in your vehicle were
operating
EDR data may be used in civil and criminal mat-
ters as a tool in accident reconstruction, accident
claims and vehicle safety. Since the Crash Data
Retrieval (CDR) tool that is used to extract data
from the EDR is commercially available,
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC ("MBUSA") expressly
disclaims any and all liability arising from the
extraction of this information by unauthorized
Mercedes-Benz personnel.
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Whether or not the driver and front passenger
seat belts were buckled/fastened
Copyright
How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the
accelerator and/or brake pedal and
Free and open source soꢂware
How fast the vehicle was traveling
Information on license for free and open-source
soꢂware used in your vehicle can be found on the
data carrier in your vehicle document wallet and
with updates on the following website:
This data can help provide a better understanding
of the circumstances in which accidents and inju-
ries occur. NOTE: EDR data is recorded by your
vehicle only if a non-trivial crash situation occurs;
no data is recorded by the EDR under normal driv-
ing conditions and no personal data (e.g. name,
gender, age and accident location) is recorded.
However, other parties, such as law enforcement,
could combine EDR data with the type of person-
ally identifying data routinely acquired during a
crash investigation.
MBUSA will not share EDR data with others with-
out the consent of the vehicle owner or, if the
vehicle is leased, without the consent of the les-
see. Exceptions to this representation include
responses to subpoenas by law enforcement; by
federal, state or local government; in connection
with or arising out of litigation involving MBUSA or
its subsidiaries and aꢀliates; or, as required by
law.
Registered trademarks
Bluetooth® is a registered trademark of Blue-
tooth SIG, Inc.
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DTS™ is a registered trademark of DTS, Inc.
Dolby® and MLP™ are registered trademarks
of DOLBY Laboratories.
Warning: The EDR is a component of the Restraint
System Module. Tampering with, altering, modify-
ing or removing the EDR component may result in
a malfunction of the Restraint System Module and
other systems.
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To read data recorded by an EDR, special equip-
ment is required, and access to the vehicle or the
EDR is needed. In addition to the vehicle manu-
facturer, other parties that have the special equip-
ESP® and PRE-SAFE® are registered trade-
marks of Daimler AG.
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