Dec 3 2014
1870s Mercedes-Benz Experimental Safety Vehicles (ESFs)
Milestones in safety development In the early 1970s, alone on the occasion of the ESV programme Mercedes-Benz built over 30 experimental vehicles for research on future automotive safety systems. These prepared the ground for numerous innovations, some of which only reached series production maturity years later. They include ABS, belt tensioners and belt force limiters, airbag and […]
Dec 4 2014
2009 Mercedes-Benz ESF S400 HYBRID
THE MERCEDES-BENZ ESF 2009 EXPERIMENTAL SAFETY VEHICLE 2009 is a year in which Mercedes-Benz celebrates several anniversaries in the safety field: in August 1939 the safety pioneer Béla Barényi started his work in Sindelfingen. He invented for example the principle of the crumple zone, a trailblazing innovation which entered series production at Mercedes-Benz in 1959. […]
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