BMW designs Car-2-X

Nowadays manufacturers have to manufacture cars that meet the demands of customers. Safety is one of the things that a lot of people want. BMW has designed a new system that will reduce the imminent danger of pedestrians. They did that in cooperation with several German researchers. A lot of accidents happen with pedestrians because motorists do not see them while driving. A research to the cause of fatal accidents tels us that almost 40 per cent of the accidents is caused because the motorist could not see the victim. Especially children's are casualties of these kind of accidents because these children's are small and that is why motorists can't see them when they are standing behind parked cars. The system created is mainly designed for the safety of children's but everyone will benefit from it. By introducing the 'car-2-x communication' BMW thinks that a lot of accidents will be prevented. 

The car-2-x is part of a research project called 'AMULET'. Volvo had already designed the City Safety but the car-2-x is better version of it. The car-2-X is a system that will sensor pedestrians before they cross the road, even when they are standing behind a car of other objects. It consists of a sensor in the car and a transponder for the pedestrian. The transponder is like an USB stick but in the future BMW wants to make the transponder smaller. The transponder should be placed in something that the pedestrian will always carry with him when he is walking outside. The transponder will send the car-2-X system a message with the position and the vulnerability of the transponder. When the pedestrian is vulnerable the system will give a signal to the driver so that he can anticipate en prevent an accident. BMW is still improving the system so that in the near future the car will automatically stop itself when the driver fails to anticipate.

As I said, BMW is not the only car brand that designed a system like this. Volvo is it's competitor and BMW is competing as good as possible. By introducing this system BMW is trying to create a better and safer image and by doing this they want to position them selfs as a company that manufactures cars that will improve the safety of other people on the road.