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The crash alert is certainly clever, though in other circumstances it might have been less easy to sprint outside. "Hey driver, don't forget to phone your mum." Everything was working as normal, and I had the intro to my story, which made it a double bonus. Do you want to receive support from Mercedes-Benz Accident Assistance?” I was given three tabs to choose from: Call, Later and No.Īfter driving a little, I hit No. I immediately received a new message on the central screen: “Your vehicle has detected a collision on 03.09 at 7.13pm. So, after grabbing the guy’s details I climbed into the A250 to check if all was working. There wasn’t a scratch, but with cameras and radar sensors in the grille, there could have been unseen damage. There’s no doubt this is the future, the car as an extension of the smartphone. I tapped on his boot, he alighted, and we both examined the scene.
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I quickly phone-photographed the scene including his number plate just in case the driver was planning to race away (which I’m not suggesting he was). A 250: A collision with your vehicle has been detected.” I ran outside to see the back of an older Mercedes rather too close to the nose of the new one. My phone beeped and, via the Mercedes me Connect app, it sent the message: “Collision alarm. The message you don't necessarily want to receive from your car. I’d been testing all the gee-whiz features in the MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience) multimedia system, and there was really only one way to find out whether the car really would alert me if say, someone smashed into it when I wasn’t in it.Īnd then, fortuitously, someone smashed into it when I wasn’t in it. I was really pleased that someone bumped my car, and not just because, strictly speaking, it wasn’t my car.