2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickup Owner Manual - Page 69

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE 67 located on the inside of the fuse block cover for the 2. Under certain circumstances, EDR data may not be proper airbag fuses. See your authorized dealer if the recorded (e.g., loss of battery power). fuse is good. In conjunction with other data gathered during a complete accident investigation, the electronic data may be Event Data Recorder (EDR) In the event of an accident, your vehicle is designed to used by Chrysler LLC and others to learn more about the record up to five seconds of specific vehicle data param- possible causes of crashes and associated injuries in order eters (see the following list) in an event data recorder to assess and improve vehicle performance. In addition prior to the moment of airbag deployment, or near to crash investigations initiated by Chrysler LLC, such deployment, and up to a quarter second of high-speed investigations may be requested by customers, insurance deceleration data during and/or after airbag deploy- carriers, government officials, and professional crash ment. EDR data are ONLY recorded if an airbag deploys, researchers, such as those associated with universities, or nearly deploys, and are otherwise unavailable. and with hospital and insurance organizations. NOTE: 1. A near-deployment event occurs when the airbag sensor detects severe vehicle deceleration usually indicative of a crash, but not severe enough to warrant airbag deployment. In the event that an investigation is undertaken by Chrysler LLC (regardless of initiative), the company or its designated representative will first obtain permission of the appropriate custodial entity for the vehicle (usually the vehicle owner or lessee) before accessing the electronic data stored, unless ordered to download data by a 2