tachograph
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Regulations
- In Germany (historical)
- Russia
- Digital tachograph
- European Union
- Operation
- Analogue tachographs
- The analogue chart (EU)
- Its use in accident investigation
- Tampering
- Digital tachographs
- Introduction of the digital tachograph in the EU
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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A tachograph is a device fitted to a vehicle that automatically records its speed and distance, together with the driver's activity selected from a choice of modes. The drive mode is activated automatically when the vehicle is in motion, and modern tachograph heads usually default to the other work mode upon coming to rest. The rest and availability modes can be manually selected by the driver whilst stationary.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tachograph” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.