The BMW 5 Series
London: German automobile manufacturer BMW has
installed the Active Cruise Control system in its 5 and 6 Series cars,
which automatically stops the vehicle to avert an accident without
having to use the breaks.
The system uses a radar beam to
constantly measure the distance to the vehicles in front of it. A
driver can set the desired speed and distance to be maintained from the
car in front, and then sit back and do next to nothing.
Once
activated, the system enables the car to drive on its own, with the
only exception that the driver needs to control the steering. It can
slow the vehicle a complete stop when necessary, and later scoot back
up to the set speed as soon as traffic allows.
The system breaks the car even when someone veers across three lanes to cut you
off.
A
camera hidden behind the rear-vision mirror reads white or yellow lines
on the road. Just in case the system senses that the driver is veering
out of his lane, it vibrates the steering wheel to alert him about the
same.
The only time when the driver will have to break is when
there is no car in front of the vehicle. To get going again, all the
driver is required to do is to hit the “resume” button.
BMW spokesman Toni Andreevski believes that even cheaper cars will start coming
with Active Cruise systems over time.
“What’s
novel about it today will be quite normal in a couple of years’ time.
As a result, drivers will be less tired, less stressed and more able to
react to dangers on the road,’’ he said.
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