The New Mercedes E-Class now features quite a few cutting-edge sophisticated gadgets to help make safer driving. Some of the new technology deployed ares night vision devices, easy to miss blind-spot detection enhancers, and a cruise control that suits your personality. Many of these features are also in the Mercedes-Benz S550, but the E-class adds a new powerful driving aid called |Attention Assist". It is a new feature for Mercedes-Benz that uses the lates technology to help keep you from dozing off at the wheel.
Attention Assist monitors the driver using 70 parameters to determine the alertness and prevent the driver from dozing off. When it detects a drowsy driver, a strong audio alarm is sounded and lights flash on the dashboard or on the speedometer display. The advanced system relies heavily on the input given by the driver to the steering wheel. The assumption is that a more tired driver will drift, and make more corrections in greater frequency then an alert driver.
This design is not totally unique as Volvo launched a similar feature last year in the S80, with a mug of coffee picture flashing on the dash. During our testing of that car, we tried our hardest to make it think we were falling asleep.
Perhaps in the not so distant future the car will no longer flash warnings but automatically steer the car to the side of the road for a well defined nap!
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