Mercedes Me: App Provides Information About Parking Damage

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Mercedes Me: App Provides Information About Parking Damage
Mercedes Me: App Provides Information About Parking Damage

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Video: Mercedes Me: App Provides Information About Parking Damage
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Parking damage to a car is often only recognized by chance. A new app from Mercedes now informs the driver about damage in real time.

Many people are familiar with the situation: you park your car on the side of the road, in a public parking lot or in a multi-storey car park and it is damaged when you return. Ideally, the polluter is waiting for you or he has put a note under the windshield wiper. Often, however, the perpetrator has run away without notice, simply committed hit-and-run.

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When you come back to the car, with a bit of luck, you will recognize the damage, but you usually only notice smaller scratches or dents much later and you wonder when that happened? The "parking damage detection and theft protection" function on a Mercedes me app that will soon be available on the market does not protect you from a runaway. But it informs you in real time that damage has been caused to the vehicle.

Mercedes is initially bringing the system to the S-Class

Damage is detected by the sensors built into the vehicle, which can be ordered as an option. They send a signal to the owner's smartphone using GPS. They also show him that his vehicle has just been damaged and even where the damage occurred. The sensors are also able to recognize whether the position of the vehicle is changed, for example when it is loaded onto a trailer. Accordingly, upon receiving the signal, the owner can either rush to his vehicle or inform the police that an attempt is being made to steal the vehicle. Of course, all of this only works if a GPS signal can also send from an underground car park.

In the event that the vehicle owner does not have a smartphone with them, they will be informed of the damage on the vehicle's display when they return. As is so often the case, Mercedes is also pursuing a top-down strategy here. In other words: The system is first used in the Swabian S-Classes currently being built before they are also used in other vehicle classes.

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