Patent ID: 8825280

Claim:
A vehicle data storage system in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, comprising: a vehicle data-storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored; a country determination portion that determines a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle; a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with country data; a data determination portion that determines the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the country determined by the country determination portion, by referring to the selection table storage portion, so that the vehicle data is stored according to a law of the country determined by the country determination portion; a data processing portion that stores, in the vehicle data storage portion, the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion; and a readout prohibition portion that, when the vehicle has moved from a first country in which first vehicle data that is the vehicle data stored in the vehicle data storage portion is legally permitted to be stored, to a second country in which the first vehicle data is not legally permitted to be stored, prohibits readout of the first vehicle data in the second country.