The BMW Group's safety concepts are always based first and foremost on reality. Precisely this is why BMW Group experts in accident research examine a wide range of real-life accidents each year, interacting with biomechanics, doctors specialising in accident treatment and prevention, as well as traumatologists in Germany and the USA, and naturally sharing their experience with researchers and developers at BMW.
The knowledge gained in these processes goes directly into new concepts for active and passive safety, where the second aspect of the BMW Group's safety philosophy comes to bear: Safety, as seen by BMW, starts with sheer driving pleasure, that is long before a possible accident. For the best accident is an accident avoided right from the start - an accident that never happens. And, at the other end, the concept continues on a long way, only ending long after the accident as such has occurred.
The BMW Group has always attached great significance to safety in road traffic. To this day there is not one single safety system in production cars which the BMW Group has not examined or developed, in many cases taking on the role of a pioneer, as in the case of the head airbag. An exceptional highlight of BMW's approach in this context is the integration of precise driving dynamics, specific support of the driver and optimum occupant protection within one overall package focusing on a very ambitious target: to ensure maximum safety all round and at all times.
No statistics reveal the accidents which never happened. And indeed, we all experience incidents and situations even in normal road traffic which potentially might lead to an accident - whether it is misjudgment, unclear situations on the road, or adverse weather and ambient conditions. In a BMW Group car the driver is able to take these situations in superior, relaxed style, a BMW or a MINI behaving the right way for the driver also under exceptional conditions and giving the driver all the benefi ts of his everyday motoring knowledge.
The objective of the chassis engineer in developing new chassis technology is to ensure safe and superior driving behaviour. For such superiority on the road creates the conditions required for relaxed motoring, smooth performance, and exemplary active safety. The driver remains in full control of his car, enjoying superior driving dynamics and safe motoring stability. And in the process he is supported by control systems handling particularly dynamic situations with ease and appropriate care.
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