ADAC award for its Active Blind Spot and Active Lane Keeping Assist systems

[MBFanToDeath]

“Yellow Angel” award for active safety

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
Stuttgart, Jan 13, 2011

• Most important automotive innovation prize awarded for the seventh time
• Jury votes a Daimler innovation to first place for the fourth time

Europe’s largest automotive association, the ADAC (German Automobile Association), which has reached a membership of 17 million, has awarded its coveted “Yellow Angel” for the seventh time. A panel of highly distinguished experts granted the distinction to the Active Blind Spot Assist and Active Lane Keeping Assist systems from Mercedes-Benz in the Innovation & Environment category. This is already the fourth time that innovations from Daimler AG have taken first place in this most important of all automotive innovation contests.

The award was ceremoniously presented at the Munich Allerheiligen-Hofkirche (All Saints Court Chapel) on 13 January 2011. In his acceptance speech, Dr Thomas Weber, member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for Group Research and Development Mercedes-Benz Cars, said: “This Yellow Angel award is a recognition not only of the innovation power of our company dedicates to road safety, it also reflects appreciation for our strategy of rapidly making new developments available in large-series production.” The Active Blind Spot Assist and Active Lane Keeping Assist systems are two of ten safety-related innovations with which Mercedes-Benz will equip the C-Class as from March, thus making these features available to a large number of customers.

The Active Blind Spot Assist system had its world premiere in mid-2010 in luxury-class vehicles. This feature alerts the driver if a change of lane would entail a risk of collision due to the presence of a vehicle in the adjacent lane, in the exterior mirror’s blind spot. If the driver ignores the warnings and starts to draw dangerously close to the vehicle in the neighbouring lane, a brake application takes place to correct the vehicle’s course.

The Active Lane Keeping Assist kicks into action if the Mercedes vehicle inadvertently drifts over a solid line to the right or left of a lane. In this case, Active Lane Keeping Assist uses the ESP® to gently brake the wheels on the far side and thereby bring the vehicle back on course. A display on the instrument cluster warns the driver at the same time. If broken lane markings are crossed, the system controls an electric pulse generator in the steering wheel which enerates vibrations for a short time – a discreet but highly effective cue to countersteer immediately. Before the braking system intervenes, the steering wheel always vibrates to provide a warning.
The Yellow Angel award in the Innovation and Environment category is the most important prize in Germany that appraises and honours innovative mobility, road safety and sustainable environmental protection. Consumers and industry trust the ADAC’s test results and take them into account when it comes to development and purchase decisions. No other association in Germany can match the wealth of long-standing know-how and extensive test experience centred round mobility of the ADAC with its more than 17 million members.

The ADAC convened a top-level, competent jury to determine the winners of the award. The ADAC “Innovation and Environment” project committee drew up a short list of the ten best applications; from this list the jury chose the three winners. The jury consisted of Dr Matthias Wissmann (President of the VDA, German Association of the Automotive Industry), Volker Lange (President of the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, VDIK), Robert Rademacher (President of the Central Association for the German Motor Vehicle Industry, ZDK), Peter Meyer (President of the ADAC), Arnulf Lode (ADAC finance Vice-president) and Thomas Burkhardt (ADAC Vice-president for technology).

In recent years, Mercedes-Benz and Daimler have already received three awards in the Innovation & Environment category: in 2006 for the clean diesel technology BlueTEC, in 2007 for the Active Brake Assist system for trucks and in 2009 for the innovative Lithium-ion battery in the S 400 HYBRID (together with Continental AG).

© 2011 The World Of Mercedes-Benz /////AMG. All rights reserved.
© 2011 Daimler AG. All rights reserved.

Source: The World Of Mercedes-Benz /////AMG

 

[LaArtist]

Kickin ass as usual..

 

[Tarek]

Yep..nothing new here.

 

[MBFanToDeath]

“Active Brake Assist 2″ safety system receives FuturAuto Award

OK guys, new award

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
Stuttgart/Brüssel, Jan 14, 2011

• Belgian motoring journalists have given this innovative driver assistance system first place among 17 candidates
• Active Brake Assist 2 brakes automatically when it detects moving and now also stationary obstacles ahead
• Lower insurance premium for trucks with the latest driver assistance systems

Stuttgart/Brussels – Around three months after the world premiere of Active Brake Assist 2 at the International Commercial Vehicle Show (IAA) in Hanover, the innovative safety *system in the Mercedes-Benz Actros received its first award in Brussels today. Belgian motoring journalists have presented the coveted “FuturAuto 2011″ award to this anticipatory radar system designed to prevent rear-end collisions.

The FuturAuto Award is presented annually for innovative development achievements in the field of vehicle safety, fuel economy, environmental protection and vehicle comfort. This year a total of 17 proposals were submitted, of which five were nominated by the jury. At the award ceremony Hubertus Troska, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, referred to this second generation of Active Brake Assist as a further, progressive development step towards improved traffic safety: “With this assistance system, which can now recognise both vehicles moving ahead and stationary obstacles, we have made our Actros, the world’s safest truck, even safer.”

Accident rate reduced by 50 percent in field trials

Even before its market launch in 2006, the first generation of Active Brake Assist demonstrated its enormous safety potential. The results of field trials covering 100 million test kilometres with 1000 Actros semitrailer combinations showed that the accident rate for vehicles equipped with the new safety system fell by 50 percent.

The second generation of this multiple award-winning safety package (e.g. Brussels Motor Show Safety Award, ADAC “Yellow Angel” award for innovation and European Safety Award for commercial vehicles) is even capable of much more: the new active safety system not only automatically maintains a preset safety distance from a vehicle travelling ahead, with automatic braking intervention if there is a risk of a rear-end collision with a vehicle moving more slowly. Active Brake Assist 2 also recognises stationary obstacles, for example the end of a traffic tailback, and automatically initiates braking action if the driver fails to react.

Obstacles recognised to a range of 150 metres

Active Brake Assist 2 is based on a new, scanning radar system. This scans the lane in which the truck is travelling from a range of 1 to 150 metres, continuously measuring the distance and differential speed versus a vehicle travelling ahead, or versus a stationary obstacle. If an accident is unavoidable unless the driver takes action, he is given a visual and then acoustic warning. If the situation becomes even more acute, the system responds by braking the vehicle.

Thanks to well-proven radar technology, Active Brake Assist 2 remains unaffected by weather and lighting conditions as before. It is also active throughout the entire speed range from 8 km/h until the limiter cuts in at 89 km/h. While Active Brake Assist cannot always prevent accidents, its automatic braking intervention significantly reduces the impact speed and therefore mitigates the consequences.

Lower insurance premium for Actros with Active Brake Assist

The improvement in traffic safety made possible by modern driver assistance systems is confirmed by current accident research findings. For example, DEKRA has found that the accident frequency for trucks in Germany has fallen by more than 70 percent since 1970. Active Brake Assist plays its part as one of the most efficient safety systems. This has also been recognised by various insurance companies, who grant premium discounts for vehicles equipped with such safety technologies.

© 2011 The World Of Mercedes-Benz /////AMG. All rights reserved.
© 2011 Daimler AG. All rights reserved.

Source: The World Of Mercedes-Benz /////AMG

 

[Tarek]

Ok this is becoming boring now haha..

 

[Zafiro]

Isnt this something Volvo did but failed in front of journalists?
Active Brake Assist 2 brakes automatically when it detects moving and now also stationary obstacles ahead

 

[Tarek]

yeah but this Mercedes-Benz dude.

 

[LaArtist]

Isnt this something Volvo did but failed in front of journalists?
Active Brake Assist 2 brakes automatically when it detects moving and now also stationary obstacles ahead

This is something of a further development..
MB had that system in the S class that volvo tried to display and failed for a while now..
And its in production and works like a charm

 

[bmer]

Isnt this something Volvo did but failed in front of journalists?
Active Brake Assist 2 brakes automatically when it detects moving and now also stationary obstacles ahead

This is a safety system for the Actros truck. Or did you mean the truckmaker Volvo AB (as opposed to Volvo Cars)? In that case I have no idea (as I'm not very interested in heavy-duty trucks anyway)...