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i think the bigger question is.. do the black boxes record the inputs of the driver or the actions of the car? in a perfect world those two things would be the same, and an engineer would not need to distinguish between them. However, nothing is perfect. If the car does not acknowledge a drivers input, are we sure the black box would? or is it just measuring say the throttle position sensor values... something to think about. The brake thing.. eh i dunno, but who knows anything with these electronics anymore. Maybe the brake pedal input sensors fail to read at WOT.. who knows.