Jay
the fool on the hill
I am very impressed by what looks to me an average speed for a front end crash.
Glad my fathers Ford has Volvo underpinnings.
Glad my fathers Ford has Volvo underpinnings.
The stickers on the car say 35kph.
Judging by the video it takes 0.52s to clear all 4628mm of a new S60 (that's what it is, right?) which works out to 32kph. One frame is 0.04s, so +/-1 frame is 29.7 to 34.7 kph.
Assuming the distance between the yellow lines is equal it took the same amount of time for both line-to-line intervals, no braking occurred.
Mercedes invited a car journalist (I believe from Autobild) and a TV crew from Stern TV to demonstrate their system. But after a couple of tests they figured out that the radar-system wouldn't work inside a building.
So in other words, it doesn't work in a tunnel either. Niiiiice.
Yeah he's a real messOuch for the Lolvo driver
So it might have trouble in NYC with the buildings and all the underground AND elevated trains, which require a metric ass load of metal? Wow what a great system...Which means it won't work in tunnels or in places like Lower Grand Street in Los Angeles, where there is lots of buried metal under the pavement and an enormously thick wall at each end.
That was brought up in the video as well and the Mercedes representative said that it has been tested in tunnels and should work in tunnels without a problem. The malfunction was supposed to be caused by the metal in the floor and especially in the thick wall on the end of the hall, which is designed to withstand all the crash tests.
BLASPHEMY!!!Simple solution!
Use them.
The braking system is one place where I do not want any unnecessary convenience technology having any sort of control, especially a system that's confused by building or tunnels. Even ABS worries me now. My Land Rover back home had (key word there) ABS and it put me in a bad situation I never should have been in. I was coasting up to a stop sign and when I pressed the brake pedal the ABS went mad for no reason whatsoever. It was over-reacting so much that even with the pedal to the floor it was like the brakes were barely on. I finally somehow managed to stop in the middle of the intersection and was lucky there was nothing coming the other way. At the time I shrugged it off as the work of Mr. Lucas. Then about a week later it happened again. As soon as I got home I deactivated the system. I'd rather get in an accident knowing I couldn't stop well enough than the car not letting me stop at all.
"Brake", "break".... Obviously just a babelfish mistranslation in the operating manual...