The need to perform "safety-critical driving maneuvers that cannot be precisely reproduced by human drivers" has prompted the carmaker into developing autopilots to perform these tasks. United under the “Automated driving” designation, the autopilots will carry on testing of assistance systems and other vehicle safety features, without having to put the lives of the engineers at risk.
“With future driver assistance systems, we will be able to address even more complex traffic situations and therefore to ease the dangers of further accident hot spots – like intersections,” said Bharat Balasubramanian, Head of Product Innovations & Process Technologies at Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering Daimler.
“Our new automated driving test methods help us to fulfill the extremely high quality and operational safety demands placed on our safety systems more efficiently.”
According to their own saying, Daimler and its engineers are the only in the world to use “automated driving” as an additional element in the testing process. The system will be used in tests otherwise impossible to reproduce, like merging at different speeds and vehicle distances, heavy braking, cut-offs and so on.
“In order to continue to set trends in the field of safety in future, our test procedures must be able to keep pace with the wealth of ideas generated by our engineers. With automated driving, we feel we are well equipped for the development of the next generation of assistance systems."
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