What's on an onboard computer?, Spinoff of the Carjack thread Options

[stevebugge]

So the issue of car theft by hacking has spawned a couple of semi related questions, but snce they don't directly apply to the act of stealing a car I'm starting a new thread.

I think it has been fairly well established that the car's pilot can physically control the vehicle but does it also store some useful data?

For example does it act like a black box recording vehicle performance indicators, repair logs, crashes, and warranty information?

Does it log vehicle movement for a short period?

Can you program and store favorite locations?

Are vehicle Sensor logs stored for a short period?

Are there other built in for your convenience features that could provide paydata to a car hacker?

Keep in mind some of this could go for other devices too, you could get a sense of a marks daily routine by hacking his appliances (his coffemaker auto starts at 5:30am mon-fri for example, giving you an idea when he wakes up)

Thoughts?