Big Brother is riding shotgun.

This article presents information related to automobile industry and trade. The threshold at which the recorder begins saving data, or sending a call to OnStar for help, varies depending on the vehicle. It typically falls in a range from 1.0 to 2.0 g's. Although it uses global positioning technology, OnStar Corp. won't track down a cheating spouse, but plenty of companies using similar technology will be more than happy to trace a car's movements - for a fee. And while auto companies and the public remain as divided as the red and blue states of the U.S. electorate on what information should be recorded by event data recorders and who should have access to it, police, government regulators, insurers and the legal community already are lined up and ready to reach into the car's internals and retrieve information.