BMW Emergency Stop Assistant brings your car to a stop if you can’t drive it
BMW’s Emergency Stop Assistant project is part of The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s SmartSenior program, which aims to develop intelligent services to make the lives of senior citizens easier and safer. BMW’s system is of course designed to make it safer for senior citizens to drive.
As you know, as we get older more and more health problems start to appear. Some older people may develop intermittent cardiovascular problems, and this may also apply to young people if they are unlucky or live an unhealthy lifestyle. What if you get a heart attack while driving, something that really might just happen considering the kind of traffic and bandits you have to deal with on Malaysian roads on a daily basis.
The BMW Emergency Stop Assistant system automatically activates an autonomous driving mode when it detects that the driver has a serious medical problem (through the use of driver vital sensors), and carries out a controlled emergency stop. It uses sensors around the car to detect the traffic around it to maneuver carefully to the outer edge of the road with the hazard lights on before stopping. BMW ConnectedDrive then performs and emergency call for medical and traffic assistance.
June 10, 2009 @ 11:16 am
Great tech and invention!
June 10, 2009 @ 11:36 am
can this system detect sleepy driver?
June 10, 2009 @ 11:49 am
It would have stopped at the wrong side in Malaysia
June 10, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
I heard that Proton also working R&D on similar system. Do you hear anything on telematics in Protons? Hopefully if it ever happened, it wont cost that much!
June 10, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
For sure Proton & every car have this. If you’re sleepy and can’t drive. You’ll end up crash stop. It’s just a little different in the stopping type. Haha
June 10, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
wat the hell ! Proton ? are you joking man…
June 10, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
Such technology are most welcome. I think every automaker should make this technology available in all range of models they produce.
June 10, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
Truly a wonderful technology. But in KL traffic I wonder how the car will maneuver with all the kiasu’s and mat rempits.
Can the car also stop when husband and wife fighting in the car? That can also cause higher blood pressure and heart pumping rate… hehe
June 10, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
wow..great technology from a great company.
this kind of technology might be expensive, but hey,safety is the top priority right?
June 10, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
where is my post Paul?
June 10, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
cool tech
June 10, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
BMW dive you now. LOL
June 10, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
Why don’t we heard Volvo doing this ?
June 11, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
What the hell??!! you thought malaysian people very rich? How many of us can buy BMW? Jangan harap Proton will do R&D and even invest that….. if you do then you all still dreaming…..
June 12, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
[quote comment="244221"]What the hell??!! you thought malaysian people very rich? How many of us can buy BMW? Jangan harap Proton will do R&D and even invest that….. if you do then you all still dreaming…..[/quote]
Typical Malaysian who always assume rather the give facts.
July 11, 2009 @ 1:17 am
You know…it’d be terribly funny if they had a miscommunication over WHICH SIDE OF THE ROAD MALAYSIA DRIVES ON…only to have the car steer itself into the opposite lane….dang