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Delphi will simulate its active safety technologies with a new safety simulator at the 2008 annual International Consumer Electronics Show. Delphi will demonstrate forward collision warning, lane departure warning, side alert and adaptive cruise control (ACC) with stop & go. Using video, sound and haptic affects, Delphi will allow consumers to dynamically experience how active safety technologies work and help prevent accidents.
Delphi is one of the first suppliers to launch a radar-based ACC system in 1999. They have continued to add features and functionality to its system including full-speed-range functionality and stop & go. With the stop & go feature, the system can control speed reduction all the way to a complete stop. Using the same radar, Delphi's pre-crash sensing system autonomously reacts to imminent crash events to enhance occupant protection. The system determines the trajectory of an oncoming target, time of impact, impact velocity and point of impact and uses this information to work with other safety systems to reduce the severity of unavoidable frontal crashes. Countermeasures are tailored to the situation and include brake assist or automatic braking, and motorized resettable seatbelts that remove seat-belt slack and better position the occupant for the collision.
Motorists changing lanes or engaging in other maneuvers face challenges from blind spots that exist to the sides of most vehicles. While vehicle designers are working to eliminate these blind spots, Delphi's active safety technologies can help mitigate their impact. Delphi's side alert system helps alert drivers of vehicles in their side blind spots when changing lanes. When a moving vehicle is detected entering the side blind spot, a visual alert is provided via an illuminated icon in the side view mirror.
The low-cost system is offered in a small package that can be integrated into taillights, side markers or side body fascia.
Yvonnick Gazeau |
