Mercedes-Benz is technology use to prevent, drive drowsy (Sharon Carty, AOL cars).I'm not sure, what has my 11 year old Commons away want to send me 4 ½ hours, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
But that meant 9 hours drive from two weekends in a row. Take a touch of insomnia, and the entire plan was a mess a bit. Above all, because I had to get early Sunday morning, hours pick-up time later on that day.
The weekend I was a pretty sweet Mercedes-Benz E550 test sedan. Adaptive cruise control makes it easy to ride. Put the car into cruise mode, and it takes slow if it (no tailgating) detects cars ahead and speeds back up when the road is clear.
You combine this with heated and massage places, and the drive was almost like a spa treatment. I was able to get used to.
Reuniting with my daughter was great. She had to sing on the ride home and a few campy songs tell entertaining stories.
But about halfway home, simmering them out. It was a bit quiet, and I cocked head on the left. I felt sleepy, but about ten minutes later I noticed something on the dashboard: a coffee cup and the message of "Time for a rest?" Isn't it? It tells me there is a Starbucks at the next rest area? Some crazy inserted display on my dashboard?
What to do, it tells me
In fact, my car for me is looking. What a nice car, I thought. The massaging back, was also concerned that I was tired of it. More than a few guys, I have dated considerate. I stopped and got a diet coke and stand outside the car for a bit, until I felt more awake me. I have also decided that turn off back massager and heated, because they made me a little too convenient.
Mercedes attention support technology one of the most dangerous driving behaviors helped me avoid: drive drowsy. According to the National Foundation sleep 100,000 accidents a year through sleepy drivers are caused.
As soon as the system "knows" how you drive by collecting data in the computer, it can tell if you have started to behave a little unpredictable. If you are traveling between 50 mph and 112 mph, it can notify you when you started, behavior, as you are tired.
The technology is standard for all E-class and CL-class vehicles, as well as V-8 and V-12 powered cars of the S-class.
But you don't need $50,000 spend to get sleepy drive technology have. Saab has an attention driver warning uses cameras to detect the eye, eyelid and head movements. Other automakers offer lane departure warning systems that alert drivers when they back out of their lanes are.
And there is a $250-device, the driver on their beat, let them know if drowsy can provide. Danish company ASP provides the sleep pilot used a questionnaire to determine your risk profile, track your ride with sensors measure 26 different factors. Also required drivers to tap the top of the sensor every 10 or 15 minutes, and assesses your response time. If you do not react quickly enough, it turns red, warn you, it's time for a break.
ASP is not currently available in the United States, but it might be available in the next two to three months.
Conclusion: drivers are often too busy or short-sighted to go, if they are sleepy. But, given the fact that the enormous number of people each year from drowsiness behind the wheel, technology that have called us from the road seems killed or injured like a good idea.
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