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Samstag, 20.November 2010American West Coast zest for life meets German technology, design art, and granny’s hand-knitted woollen socks. The designers at the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studio in Sindelfingen based their design for an unusual smart with four seats for this year’s Los Angeles Design Challenge on these principles.
The smart 454 is produced by “Smart Granny Robots” [...]
Mercedes-Benz at the Los Angeles Design Challenge: Mercedes-Benz BIOME: an Ultralight Vehicle at One with Nature
Donnerstag, 18.November 2010At this year’s Los Angeles Design Challenge, the designers from the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad, California, surprised everyone with a revolutionary vision.
Taking their inspiration from nature, they designed a vehicle which is fully integrated into the ecosystem, from the moment of its creation right through to the end of its service life. [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: On the Road to Zero-Emission Mobility
Mittwoch, 17.November 2010Today’s automobiles are caught in a situation marked by ever-increasing, more and more varied, and in some cases conflicting requirements. Customers want safe, comfortable, and powerful vehicles that are also extremely efficient and environmentally friendly.
The central challenge is to make motor vehicles even more efficient and cleaner without compromising safety or comfort. In order [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: On the Road to Accident-free Driving
Dienstag, 16.November 2010For decades, Mercedes-Benz has been setting the standards for the development of new technologies for boosting active and passive safety in automobiles. All of these systems have demonstrably contributed to making road traffic safer and to considerably reducing the numbers of road users injured or killed in accidents.
Mercedes-Benz defines the benchmarks in active safety [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: Operating comfort – Intelligent Systems and Solutions Improve Drivers’ Physiological Well-being
Samstag, 13.November 2010At Mercedes-Benz, maximum comfort means much more than pleasant driving and high-quality features. All of our comfort solutions are intended to improve the driver´s condition and to consistently relieve driving strain by means of many individual measures that are painstakingly coordinated with one another.
Operating comfort, ergonomics, air conditioning, low noise levels, handling properties, and [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: Driving Simulation Center – Digital Prototypes on Digital Roads
Donnerstag, 11.November 2010The new Mercedes-Benz Driving Simulation Center brings together the world’s most advanced facilities of their kind. Over a period of five years, Mercedes-Benz is investing €160 million in the infrastructure, the driving simulator, and the climate and wind tunnels. This will result in direct benefits for the customers of the brand.
Using digital prototypes created with [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: The Mercedes-Benz development strategy – Innovation: The Key to Success
Mittwoch, 10.November 2010Innovation has always been the key to success for automakers, and it will be even more important in the future. Without the courage to launch new ideas there would not be any automobiles, and without a capacity for innovation there would be no progress. Mercedes-Benz is the inventor of the automobile, and it continues to [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: New Ideas for the Mobility of Today and Tomorrow
Montag, 8.November 2010What will the cars of tomorrow look like? And how will people’s mobility requirements develop in the future? The development experts at Daimler and Mercedes-Benz find answers to basic questions like these with the help of such activities as market research and customer feedback, technology monitoring, and futurology research.
The company can look back on [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: Customer Research Center – An Idea Factory for the Cars of Tomorrow
Sonntag, 7.November 2010The Customer Research Center (CRC) provides the foundation that enables Mercedes-Benz to turn automotive dreams into reality. The three focal points of the work done at the CRC are (1) systematic customer research designed to determine customer requirements, (2) the generation of ideas in the Innovation Workshop, and (3) the monitoring of product acceptance. This [...]
Mercedes-Benz TecDay Innovations: “Room for free and creative thinking”
Donnerstag, 28.Oktober 2010With more than 80,000 patent applications in the space of around 125 years, Mercedes-Benz has defined automotive progress more broadly and sustainably than any other vehicle maker.
Dedicated processes ensure that many of these ideas are turned into reality at Daimler and Mercedes-Benz. In 2009, too, the company made more initial patent submissions than any [...]
Mercedes-Benz automobiles and research cars with electric drive: A longstanding tradition of electric drive systems
Samstag, 18.September 2010The first Mercedes electric car, the “Electrique”, could be seen on the roads in Austria at the turn of the twentieth century. However, electric drive systems could not compete with the internal combustion engine in terms of power and range. Intensive Mercedes-Benz research into solutions for locally emission-free mobility since the 1970s has yielded a [...]
DRIVE Lab: The Fuel Cell
Donnerstag, 20.Mai 2010Water, the only end product of motoring: What seems like a vision of the future is already thanks to the fuel cell system.
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Automated Driving
Freitag, 14.Mai 2010It looks like something out of a science fiction film: On the Mercedes-Benz test track driverless cars test the assistance system oft he future. Using GPS and radio the developers are constantly in touch with the automated vehicles keeping them safely on course. This serves to collect meaningful data helping to make motoring even safer [...]
Autopilots at Mercedes-Benz: “Automated driving” – a new proving method for state-of-the-art safety systems
Freitag, 7.Mai 2010With an eye on future generations of driver assistance systems, Mercedes-Benz is the first vehicle maker worldwide to introduce an innovative proving method into its test driving portfolio – safety-critical driving manoeuvres that cannot be precisely reproduced by human drivers are now being handled by autopilot on closed test tracks.
“Automated driving” supports the development, [...]
Daimler participates in Shanghai World Expo 2010
Mittwoch, 28.April 2010Daimler, the inventor of the automobile, will participate in various activities at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, which will be held from May 1 until October 31. In line with the world exposition’s motto of “better city, better life,” the focus of Daimler’s participation will be on presenting future-oriented drive technologies and mobility concepts fulfilling [...]
Next Generation Protection
Sonntag, 25.April 2010Together Mercedes-Benz and environmental activist Mike Horn charter a course for a greener future. The young explorers are not only aboard ship but also on the road with the B-Class and ist zero emission drive F-CELL.
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