Mercedes expands the safety functions among its models manufactured since 2016. The star brand includes this new functionality in communication between vehicles and infrastructures, available according to countries, and which allows anticipating special conditions on the road, prioritizing levels of danger .
Driving is safer if we can anticipate special situations and events that occur on the sections of a route. Know the event that we can find at the exit of a curve help all drivers and road safety, the goal of connected cars and communication between the vehicles themselves and the infrastructures.
Two parties that share relevant information, and that in the Mercedes models manufactured since 2016 constitutes, from now on, an important step forward. Because the star brand has expanded the communication between your models and infrastructures with new functionalities, an advanced technology that will reach no less than three million units. Especially, the new Mercedes C-Class, S-Class and EQS are capable of detecting potholes in the road.
Mercedes models safer with Car-to-X technology
Some incidents that the infotainment system itself collects and locates with browsing data before sharing such information and warnings in real time to other models. In particular, in these three models, it is the chassis control unit that captures this information from the pothole and sends it to a digital data storage cloud, together with the positioning coordinates, being sent to all the models of the German manufacturer that are in the same route.
The route shown on the screen will show certain icons on the navigation screen, with the incident detected. The German firm is working on a new very interesting function that it hopes to implement in the not too distant future, that of Crosswind Wizard. In this case, the system will take the data from the ESP stability control warning of the existence of dangerous gusts of wind in a specific area.
The new functions require a «Mercedes me» account and activate the «Car-to-X» warning function, transmitting and receiving information on damaged vehicles en route, accident and traffic jam locations, slippery road surfaces, heavy rain situations – when the windshield wipers are activated at the most powerful level – or the existence of fog.