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21. The thing required to be observed is that now the science has developed a lot, electronic devices have provided unimaginable assistance in all fields of life. Electromagnetic systems and devices are there and with the outbursting progress of information technology it is high time that the legal system and the litigation, at least in the field of motor accidents, continues or is left or compelled to work in the 'bullock cart age' working systems only.

22. It strikes to my mind that now with the motor vehicles with improved technology as are crowded on the roads and with the prices touching sky high, the Motor Vehicles Act requires suitable amendments providing for installation of some electronic image and data recording device, with a data recorder on some appropriate place on the front side which device may start functioning as soon as the engine is started and the vehicle is put into gear and it may view the things moving around the vehicle for some distance on either side, another such device for viewing the things moving behind and equally distant on the either side and such device should be able to record the data of limited period of time, may be 15 minutes or half an hour and may go on deleting the past data and at the same time as soon as any accident takes place and that accident is recorded by the device, automatically coming to a stop with saving those data and which data need not be deleted. Thereafter, even if the vehicle is in a position to move ahead, the device should be able to further record the data, without deleting the last data, God forbid, if again any accident takes place and so on. Such data, or list of data, should be capable of being located and/or traced, as soon as the vehicle having such data happens to cross such traffic points or toll plazas and it may be ascertained as to whether any police report about recorded accident has come to be registered by any police station or not and those data should be so stored as to be available for M.A.C.T. concerned, before whom the claim may happen to be lodged. Such data are required to be preserved for long in view of the latest provisions in Motor Vehicles Act regarding limitation. Likewise, this installation is required to be made one of the necessary preconditions for registration of all types of motor vehicles and equally a precondition for providing its fitness and requiring renewal of fitness at requisite and regular intervals and the said device to be checked at such frequency of intervals as may be required, to ensure continued functioning of the device. Likewise to ensure the fool proof working of the device, it should have such a system that unless the device is ready to record the data the engine of the vehicle does not start or if is required to be started, in any case, the gear system whether it be manual or automatic, does not allow the vehicle to move. The readiness of the device includes requisite power supply its view being free from any type of obstructions, its subsisting capacity to store data or further data or the like.