Visual Traffic Safety.

Traffic Safety.

Advanced safety technologies are part of Mercedes-Benz’s DNA and part of our pursuit of sustainability. What drives us on is our vision of accident-free driving where nobody loses their life on the road.

Everyone who gets into a Mercedes-Benz vehicle should feel comfortable and safe on their way from A to B. Day after day, we deploy our creativity, precision and passion to improve the safety of our vehicles through innovations and intelligent assistance systems. This benefits both the occupants of a Mercedes-Benz and other road users travelling in vehicles, by bike or on foot. With our safety technologies we provide important impulses for the entire road traffic system and thus pursue our vision of accident-free driving. And that is why Traffic Safety is one of our sustainability focus areas.
Mercedes-Benz uses more than 120 female and male dummies of around 20 different types in the crash tests.

Accident research.

Our Mercedes-Benz experts analyse how and why road accidents happen – and thus provide valuable input for our innovative safety systems.

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 Schematic view of a glass EQS SUV. An eight-stage safety concept protects the battery in the vehicle's floor.

Safe driving.

Mercedes-Benz has developed more than 40 driver assistance systems to minimise the risk of accidents. And this development work is progressing step by step.

Safe Driving overview

 Visual Traffic Safety Initiatives.

Traffic safety initiatives.

More education, more safety: Mercedes-Benz is committed to road safety worldwide – from Germany to China and India. Here’s an overview of our projects.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 1.2 million people worldwide die in road traffic accidents every year. Up to 50 million are injured every year. Reducing the number and severity of road accidents will obviously reduce human suffering, relieve the burden on society and healthcare systems, and make the world a better place. That is why at Mercedes-Benz we have been working on advanced safety technologies for decades and support the European Union’s Vision Zero. By 2030, Vision Zero aims to have halved the number of road deaths and serious injuries recorded in 2020 – and to achieve zero road fatalities by 2050. At Mercedes-Benz we have an even more ambitious target: From 2050, none of our vehicles should be the cause of a road accident.

Safe, conditionally automated driving.

Mercedes-Benz focuses on safety and reliability for conditionally automated driving (SAE Level 3). DRIVE PILOT combines sensors such as LiDAR, radar and camera, and is built on a redundant system architecture to safely manage all situations that may occur.

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To achieve this vision of accident-free driving, we are conducting innovative basic research and working closely with other stakeholders such as public authorities, NGOs and scientists. Technologies for automated driving are also crucial to realising our vision of accident-free driving. Mercedes-Benz has always led in the development of smart safety systems such as ABS or ESP. Nowadays, we are staying true to this pioneering spirit and developing advanced systems for automated driving, in which ethical and social aspects are taken into account right from the outset.

Mercedes-Benz introduced the Hybrid III 5th Percentile Female dummy even before it was officially required by law.

Crash-test dummies – as diverse as we are.

Over 20 years ago, Mercedes-Benz introduced female crash-test dummies as well. Today, we use 21 different dummy models and advanced measurement technology.

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 On the road with the accident investigators from Mercedes-Benz

Safety through science.

From securing evidence to safety progress – how our accident researchers have been analysing real-life traffic accidents for over 55 years and directly influencing our vehicles’ on-going development.

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 Termination of a business trip: The actual crash takes just about 120 milliseconds. In order not to miss a detail, the tests are documented by high speed cameras taking 1,000 images per second.

The crash-test experts.

Mercedes-Benz has been conducting crash tests for over 65 years – at our Technology Centre for Vehicle Safety in Sindelfingen.

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 Safety at Mercedes-Benz is not a matter of drive system.

New standards with electric SUV crash tests.

With the first public crash test of two purely electric vehicles, Mercedes-Benz demonstrated that our cars also offer a high level of safety in realistic collision scenarios and that our electric cars are in no way inferior to combustion-engine vehicles.

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Safety at Mercedes-Benz.

For our development engineers, this means not just designing our road vehicles to meet regulatory requirements or consumer protection ratings. Our aim is to develop safe vehicles for real-life accident scenarios on actual roads and thus create genuine added value for all road users.

Above and beyond the legal requirements: An EQA and an EQS SUV collided head-on with a 50 percent overlap in a real-life accident scenario, each travelling at 56 km/h.

Safety.

Mercedes-Benz is inventor of modern vehicle safety – and remains a pioneer in the field to this day.

Safety Overview