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Everyone has a view on whether it’s possible to predict what’s coming.
Impossible, many would say. A challenge, is what our R&D people reply. But
actually, our engineers were not happy with just seeing what’s about to
happen: they had the crazy idea of wanting to influence the future through
actions in the present, for in this way they could help to prevent accidents
ever happening. You’ve surely been there before: you are concentrating on
the road ahead, when suddenly a shadow catches the corner of your eye...
In those few critical seconds you’re best off benefitting from the results of
many years of research. We have developed technologies that allow the
vehicle to keep an eye on everything around it. It can see things coming that
we can at best only guess at – for example, by calculating where moving
objects will move to, and when. Using a stereo camera system that can view
things three-dimensionally, in other words spatially. Just like a human can.
But can then compute this data so quickly that it is analysed in real time, and
can forecast, for example, the future position of a cyclist. That is impossible
for a human and unique in a car – i.e. typically S-Class.