• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What I mean is that black boxes are technically super easy today and shouldn’t cost a lot of money.

    All you need is basically a microcontroller writing to an SSD in an armored, heat-shielded box. Should be cheaper than a single seat.

    I couldn’t find up-to-date prices. The only thing I could find was that in 1993 a combined cockpit voice and data recoder that was made in a way that it would detach from the plane in case of ditching in water would cost ~$60k per piece.

    That was in a time way before shock resistant SSDs, so it was mechanically much more difficult to build that.

    Can’t imagine that a modern airplane grade black box costs more than a couple thousand.

    When it comes to cars, all you need is a microcontroller logging to an SD card or EMMC. That costs maybe a few dollars.