20.5.2019 Stuttgart. Electrical drives and fully automated Driving key technologies for the mobility of the future. According to the requirements of the safety technology in the car will change: for one thing, the much more flexible Seating position require in the interior of such vehicles, a other occupant protection.
And on the other, empathy and trust are key factors for the acceptance of self-driving vehicles. Other road users need to intuitively be able to recognize a fully automated vehicle is up to, as it is in many situations not communicating driver. With the new Experimental safety vehicle ESF 2019 Mercedes-Benz shows which ideas are the safety experts of the company are researching at the moment and work. Under the well a dozen innovations are both close-to-production developments, as well as those that extend far into the future.
The ESF 2019 based on the new Mercedes-Benz GLE, driving in many situations in a fully automated and has a Plug-in Hybrid drive. In June 2019, the ESF 2019 at the ESV conference in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) has his big appearance in front of professionals. The General Public, it shows at the International automobile exhibition (IAA) in September 2019, in Frankfurt. In some aspects, the ESF 2019 is a preview of what is to Come, in the other, a Vision, and in the other a contribution to the discussion, but also a tool for the improvement of road safety in the great Tradition of Mercedes-Benz.
“Safety is part of the DNA of Mercedes-Benz. That in the case of this topic, the ideas do not go out, we show been around since the 70s, always with our Experimental safety vehicles. The new ESF 2019 reflects the mobility of the future and presents a variety of innovations, which we are currently conducting research and develop. And I’ll tell you one thing: Some of the functions are very close to the series launch,“ says Ola Källenius, member of the Board of management of Daimler AG, responsible for Mercedes-Benz Cars development.
“Safety is and remains our core brand value”, emphasises Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rodolfo schöneburg, head of the Center for vehicle safety, durability, and corrosion protection, Mercedes-Benz Cars. “The great advantage of the automation of driving functions is that, in future, fewer accidents due to driver errors are caused. But also fully-automated and driverless vehicles are pushed to their physical limits, and it will surely give many years to a mixed traffic of automated and non-automated vehicles.“
Content
- Over a dozen innovations: more protection for passengers and partners
- The thematic priorities of the ESF in 2019 at a Glance:
- “Real Life Safety”philosophy: from real-world accidents to learn
- The history of The ESF-vehicles: from the research in the series
Over a dozen innovations: more protection for passengers and partners
The thematic priorities of the ESF in 2019 at a Glance:
Comprehensive driver safety: Is the ESF 2019 fully automated on-the-go, steering Wheel and pedal retracted, which may reduce the risk of injury in a Crash. The greater interior flexibility requires new ideas for restraint systems (seat integrated belt) and Airbags with alternative installation spaces (driver’s Airbag in the instrument panel, integral side airbags sit in the side frame bolsters of the seat). The ESF 2019 so shows ideas for a manual driving mode With daylight-like light from the sun visor may contribute to the vitalizing the inside lighting to the fact that the driver remains fit.
Cooperative vehicle-environment-communication: in order for people To gain confidence to the automated vehicle, you can immediately and intuitively recognize what this is. The ESF 2019 to power in this respect, a major step in human traffic participants. Its sensor not only have the road in view, it communicates in all directions and can also warn other road users. The ESF 2019 also features the revolutionary spotlight technology of DIGITAL LIGHT with virtually glare-free high beam in HD quality and with more than two million pixels of resolution.
Child safety: The child-seat-of-concept PRE-SAFE® Child be streamlined prior to a Crash preventive the straps of the seat and side impact protection elements are extended. The child is fixated by the tensioned belt is better and more accurate in his seat and the slack in the Belt is reduced. The burden for the child to fall significantly. Installation and vital monitoring are further in the seat, built-in functions.
POC: With innovations such as a small robot that moves in an accident or a breakdown, independently from the rear of the vehicle and the edge of the road a warning triangle sets, the ESF 2019, as the risk hedging set could be further improved. For more ideas on this are a warning triangle, which is folded from the roof of the vehicle, as well as the rear window as a communication area.
New PRE-SAFE® functions: PRE-SAFE® Curve (warns the driver by using the belt tensioner, that he has underestimated the approaching curve may) and PRE-SAFE® side lighting with electroluminescent paint can defuse accident-prone situations. PRE-SAFE® impulse, the tail can extend in a traffic jam for the protection of passengers and other parties involved in the accident.
Safety and comfort in the rear: An innovative rear-seat-Airbag uses a new type of special filling concept for Inflating and Positioning of the air cushion. For this purpose, he has a special tube structure.
With Belt feeder, belt lighting, USB lock harness and strap-heating are implemented in the ESF 2019 some ideas on how passengers could be motivated on the rear seats with new means to Create the belt.
Active safety: Active brake assistant with expanded functions in the ESF 2019 provides additional protection, especially in tricky traffic situations with vulnerable road users. Be detected when turning now also to pedestrians and cyclists, moving parallel to its original direction of travel. A collision with vulnerable road users, crossing the road into which the vehicle turns, the driver is warned optically, acoustically. He is not responding, is an Autonomous braking. This is so true, if a cyclist when turning right, located in the dead angle. The danger that the vehicle collides with the cross-traffic, threatens when turning into a road or Crossing a road, the System now prevents Starting and stops the vehicle if necessary so from the step speed by Autonomous braking. The System 360° pedestrian safety warns and assists during Parking and maneuvering in case of imminent collisions with vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists), to Autonomous brake intervention.
“Real Life Safety”philosophy: from real-world accidents to learn
Mercedes-Benz is based in the security development on real-world accidents for the protection of all road users. This “Real Life Safety”-safety philosophy includes not only simulation and crash tests, legal requirements, and public credit Ratings. They are developed from real accidents rigorous internal safety requirements, in many cases the statutory requirements or rating requirements.
Base, the accident research: For 50 years, its own experts to investigate serious accidents with the participation of the current Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The aim is to learn from it and to let the findings in the design of new models.
New ideas and concepts of safety, as shown by the ESF 2019, can be tested, among other things, in the vehicle safety technology center (TFS) and validated. In November 2016 opened the TFS is part of the development centre in Sindelfingen and one of the most advanced crash-test centres in the world. In TFS, Mercedes-Benz, a variety of test options has to stay in vehicle safety in the forefront.
The history of The ESF-vehicles: from the research in the series
With the ESF 2019 Mercedes-Benz draws on a long Tradition: For the ESV safety conferences in the years 1971 to 1975, the buildings, the security expert of over 30 test vehicles and tested them in crash tests, the always visionary security objectives of Mercedes-reach Benz. Four of these vehicles – ESF 5, ESF 13 (both on the Basis of the middle-class model series W 114 /”dash 8″), the ESF 22 and ESF 24 (both on the Basis of the S-class, W 116) – were presented to the Public.
The first ESF-vehicle for many years, and the immediate predecessor of the ESF in 2019, the ESF 2009. This research vehicle has on 15. June 2009 21. International vehicle safety conference (ESV – Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference) celebrated in Stuttgart its Premiere. In the meantime, numerous innovations of the ESF 2009 are included in the series production. To that end, the S-class available Beltbag, PRE-SAFE® include, for example, pulse page for E-class, CLS and GLE, as well as in many of the series offered Active Highbeam assist Plus.
The Experimental safety vehicle (ESF) 2019 summarizes more than a dozen pioneering innovations in the area of security clearly.
