Chevrolet Silverado: Vehicle Data Recording and Privacy / Cybersecurity
GM collects information about the use of your vehicle including operational and
safety related information. We collect this information to provide, evaluate, improve,
and troubleshoot our products and services and to develop new products and services.
The protection of vehicle electronics systems and customer data from unauthorized
outside electronic access or control is important to GM. GM maintains appropriate
security standards, practices, guidelines and controls aimed at defending the vehicle
and the vehicle service ecosystem against unauthorized electronic access, detecting
possible malicious activity in related networks, and responding to suspected cybersecurity
incidents in a timely, coordinated and effective manner. Security incidents could
impact your safety or compromise your private data. To minimize security risks,
please do not connect your vehicle electronic systems to unauthorized devices or
connect your vehicle to any unknown or untrusted networks (such as Bluetooth, WIFI
or similar technology). In the event you suspect any security incident impacting
your data or the safe operation of your vehicle, please stop operating your vehicle
and contact your dealer.
The vehicle has a number of computers that record information about the vehicle’s
performance and how it is driven or used. For example, the vehicle uses computer
modules to monitor and control engine and transmission performance, to monitor the
conditions for airbag deployment and deploy them in a crash, and, if equipped, to
provide antilock braking to help the driver control the vehicle...
This vehicle is equipped with an event data recorder (EDR). The main purpose
of an EDR is to record, in certain crash or near crash-like situations, such as
an air bag deployment or hitting a road obstacle, data that will assist in understanding
how a vehicle’s systems performed...
Other information:
It is very important to know how much weight the vehicle can carry. This weight
is called the vehicle capacity weight and includes the weight of all occupants,
cargo, and all nonfactory-installed options. Two labels on the vehicle may show
how much weight it was designed to carry: the Tire and Loading Information label
and the Certification/Tire label...
If your trailer is equipped with an integrated braking system, make sure that it strictly conforms to your state or regional regulatory requirements, and that it is properly installed and functioning correctly before hitting the road.
If your trailer weighs more than the maximum allowable limit specified for unbraked trailers, it must be equipped with its own dedicated braking system, and those brakes must be fully adequate for the load...