After a car crash, drivers often depend on police reports and witness accounts to figure out what happened. But modern cars have a more reliable source: the Event Data Recorder (EDR), also known as a ...

Most people know that electronic flight data recorders -- also known as "black boxes" -- are a critical source of information to aircraft crash investigators. Yet most motorists don't realize that if ...

(Reuters) — U.S. federal safety investigators have located the “black box” recorders from the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from the airport at Louisville, Kentucky, ...