Innovations contribute to road safety. BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG, is an important pillar of this research. All its innovations concerning accident prevention are based on detailed analysis of accident causes and chronology.
It is against this background that it develops and tests specifically tailored solutions and systems. The aim is to help drivers handle their driving responsibilities, to inform and/or warn him, and thus avoid accidents through preventive technology or at least mitigate the consequences.
Technology is designed to provide people with functions that compensate for physiological limitations (e.g. human response times). However, the decision rests with the driver. Current developments by BMW Group Research and Technology in the field of driver assistance systems: • an emergency braking system for protecting pedestrians,
• the intersection assistant,
• the wrong-way driver information system
• and the curve information system.
These systems improve driver anticipation, making use of both autonomous on-board systems and inter-vehicle communication. Vision of an "automotive Internet Protocol-based on-board electronics network".
BMW Group Research and Technology also carries out research into a new Internet Protocol-based networking technology for on-board electronics systems. This "future on-board electronics" project is based on the vision that all vehicle applications should be able to communicate intelligently and on an equal basis with each other and with their environment. In this way vehicles will become an integral part of the digital telecommunications infrastructure.
Connected with this are new functions in the link-up with mobile devices and glimpses inside increasingly "transparent" vehicles.
0 comments:
Post a Comment