Abstract: A method and system are provided for providing insurance pricing. The method includes acquiring data associated with a vehicle, a roadway, an environment, acquiring data regarding the driver, encrypting the data, transmitting the data, and determining a risk based on the data associated with the vehicle, the roadway, the environment and the driver, and determining an insurance premium price based on the risk, wherein the insurance premium price is in units of price per unit time or price per unit distance.

Abstract: A method for capturing vehicular accident data and automatically making it available to authorized parties includes recording and storing data significant to the operation of the vehicle in a memory on-board said vehicle. At least a part of the data is automatically transmitting to a data storage server remote from the vehicle over wireless transmission link. Data from the wireless link is coupled to a central data base connected to a network and accessible by terminals.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the invention is an engine diagnostic system including a plurality of sensors. One of the plurality of sensors includes a speed sensor generating a speed value indicative of aircraft speed. A processor is coupled to the sensors and stores prior mission data and current mission data in a data memory when the speed value is within a predetermined velocity range. A fault indicator is provided which is visible from the exterior of the aircraft. The processor detects a presence or absence of a fault in response to the prior mission data and current mission data and activates the fault indicator in response to the presence of a fault. Another exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method for detecting faults in an aircraft. The method includes determining when aircraft speed is within a predetermined velocity range and obtaining current mission data in response to the aircraft speed being within the velocity range.

Abstract: One or more video cameras are mounted on the vehicle to make continuously a visual record of the scene in a region around the vehicle. Camera images during a time interval covering the current time and the recent past are stored on-board the vehicle, preferably, digitally recorded in a compressed format. In addition, data (e.g. one or more operating parameters such as speed, GPS data, engine, and/or brake operating parameters) from the vehicle's on-board embedded computers covering the present and recent past interval are also preferably digitally stored on-board the vehicle. An accident detector or detectors on-board the vehicle, for example a biaxial accelerometer, generate a trigger signal in response to an accident, such as the vehicle striking something or being struck by another vehicle. In response to an accident detector trigger signal, the data stored on-board the vehicle is automatically transmitted over a wireless link (e.g.