November 17, 200520 yr original link: http://www.askaprice.com/torque-article.as...ration&item=669 AUTHOR: Haje Jan Kamps PUBLISHED: 16/11/2005 The new Mercedes S class has a sophisticated radar-based braking system - when it works. A TV demonstration ended up in a 3-car pile-up when the S-class' safety radar failed. A German television channel got a bigger scoop than they bargained for when Mercedes showed up with three of their flagship vehicles - only to crash them into each other when a safety demonstration failed. Full article at: http://www.askaprice.com/torque-article.as...ration&item=669
November 18, 200520 yr Author This would make me Very hesitant with this system... what about bridges... tunnels... anything that has a lot of metal around you. I'd have a hard time trusting it. I guess it is good as a emergency safety system... just don't rely on it. Edited November 18, 200520 yr by johnnyangelb
November 18, 200520 yr Author That's like the Blue Screen during the Windows 95 intro. [post="44379"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post] :lol: I remember that! What a great moment in time!
November 18, 200520 yr Our salesman at Mercedes Benz told me (after he went back to a GM dealer) that when he came to work Monday Morning at the Benz place he saw the line of S classes at the service department and he would just cringe. . . . .
November 18, 200520 yr Packard experimented with radar braking circa 1953. Didn't work then, either (actually, worked fine to avoid hitting a stationary object in the test facility, but got 'confused' out in the real world with too many 'input signals'), but at least their's didn't crash into 2 other of their own vehicles. mercedes; bah.
November 18, 200520 yr So the moral of the lesson is, if you're Bond, and you plan on driving through a steel hall, don't do it in a new S-class. Nice.
November 18, 200520 yr You know, maybe this is God's way of telling us to just learn to freakin' pay attention when we drive...
November 18, 200520 yr That's like the Blue Screen during the Windows 95 intro. [post="44379"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post] It's not 95. It's 98. They plugged a USB scanner and then it crashed.
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