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Originally Posted by Timco
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"Investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
met with engineers from Porsche to analyze the data-retrieval system in the car's computer, the department said last month. That system is used to shed light on the car's speed, throttle opening, air bag deployment, seat belt use and, possibly, other information from the time of the crash"
That's an interesting word choice. More interesting is that any of the car's data-logging is apparently fire and explosion-proof. And instead of hiring an independent expert to examine the data, the police went to the party that will most likely be the defendant in a civil suit to analyze said data? Sounds to me like Porsche is setting up a defense for the family's civil suit with this 100+ mph business. If Rodas was a competitive driver, I don't see how he couldn't have scrubbed some speed, at speeds fairly common for a racer and on a stretch of street that was far from ideal for 100+ mph racing. Either way they were certainly going over 45 mph so Porsche has a leg up from the start.
Let's wait until the family's indepdenpent expert goes through these same documents/data, if Porsche hasn't cleverly settled before then (long after the 100+ mph storyline becomes accepted fact).
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