BMW Group Research and Technology, in partnership with the main German research institutes, has currently developed a system that can assist motorists handle pedestrians that suddenly appear from between two parked cars.
AMULETT, the name of the research project which is a German acronym for ‘Active mobile accident avoidance and mitigation of accident effects through cooperative data acquisition and tracking technology’ has come up with what they call a Car-2-X Communication. The system involves vehicles communicating with radio transponders that are carried by people for personal safety purposes. The sensor systems between the car and the transponder reveal and recognize even pedestrians that are hidden from view. The three-year venture has been funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology. The other participants include Continental Safety Engineering International GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute for Ingtegrated Circuits, the Institute for High Frequency Engineering at Munich’s Technical University, and ZENTEC GmbH. At the conclusion of the project, set on May 6 this year, the results of AMULETT will be publicly unveiled.
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