AUTOMOTIVE TESTING: EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY
❱❱ Test facilities in Sindelfingen provide full crash testing, vehicle measurement and sled testing capabilities for any level of component or assembly
High-spec safety vehicles are a sandpit for engineering excellence
Mercedes Benz complements its vehicle safety testing facilities with the ESF experimental vehicle for trying out new ideas
demanding more safety features to be made available as standard items in order to get higher ratings. In such an environment, active safety
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systems, ADAS (advanced driver assist systems) and NCAP star ratings today are becoming as important as performance figures were in the past. For decades, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz
have been the market leaders in terms of safety. Yet in such a changing environment, they cannot rest on their laurels and both
ehicle safety is beginning to have more influence on consumer purchasing decisions and the national crash testing centres keep moving the goal-posts by
are sinking huge sums into the development of ADAS and autonomy, with each using their engineering creativity to stay ahead.
THE ESF 2019 Mercedes has now developed an experimental safety vehicle (ESF) for 2019 using modern drive train technology and as much automation as is technically achievable at present. The company believes that its experimental
platform needs to be as valid a representation of current trends in motoring as possible in order to be able to assess the applicability of its innovations in safety technology. Based on the Mercedes-Benz GLE, it is
capable of automated driving in many situations and has a plug-in hybrid drive system. According to head of Mercedes-Benz
Cars Development, Ola Källenius, the ESF 2019 reflects the mobility of the future, and
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❱❱ The ESF 2019 is the latest generation of experimental safety vehicles for prototyping both passive and dynamic safety systems
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