Month: March 2017

From 1 July onwards the general warning vigilance (European standard EN 471) applies in Germany. For this purpose, the Group is presenting an interior idea that not only increases the safety of the vehicle occupants, but also serves premium requirements.

 

As the interior experts emphasize, many drivers know the importance of the safety vest. But their sight is anything but beautiful, since the reflective signal colors often contrast strongly with the noble surfaces of a high-quality interior. To ensure that drivers are no longer required to stow away the legally prescribed warning vests in the door pockets, the glove compartment or even in the footwall, the warning vests in the interior idea of ​​the Darla Group disappear in several small suspension units. These can be located, for example, in the center console, in the instrument panel as well as in the door panels and are therefore no longer visible. As a result, the noble look of the premium interior is not impaired by the bright neon colors of the warning vests and, in case of emergency, the life guard is nevertheless easy to find.

 

Level 1: Warning indicator after activation of the hazard warning light. If the hazard warning system is activated in the event of a breakdown, the occupants can, by touching, open the respective roof cover itself, then quickly remove their warning vestiges, overlap and then leave the vehicle. With an optical indication, which starts to light up when the warning light is activated, the Darla Group ensures that vehicle occupants also know exactly where the high visibility vest suspensions can be found even at night or in low light conditions.

 

The expert for interior systems of premium vehicles makes use of his leather competences, among other things. Thus, on the leather-clad areas of the cockpit only light-colored light arrows are visible, which indicate the exact position of the warning vest compartments to the occupants. This is made possible by backlit leather, in which the corresponding areas are penetrated by a translucent micro-perforation, which is not visible in the normal case. In addition, the edges of the covers of the warning vest compartments should also be illuminated for better visibility.

 

Stage 2: Automatic to wear a warning vest after an accident

In an accident where the airbags are triggered, the life-saving warning vests come out of the interior compartments at the same time and are ready to be used with lightning speed. According to the idea of ​​the automotive supplier, the airbag sensors should also immediately trigger the release of the warning vests during a crash. The principle is comparable to a sudden pressure drop in an aircraft cabin, in which the oxygen masks also fall automatically from folding compartments above the seats.

Also here, according to the idea of ​​the Darla Group, ensure the colored light arrows? And even in very poor light and visibility conditions, such as after an airbag shot, in which gases and talcum are thrown through the air and can obscure visibility. In addition, in an accident, the vehicle occupants are often in an extreme stress situation. The handle for the life-saving warning reflective vest is therefore to be intuitive, very fast and easy. The Darla Group is now looking for car manufacturers for the joint development of the interior idea.

German transport politicians dream like zero fatalities. For this purpose they have to decide but also unpopular things. For example, a duty-high visibility vest for pedestrians in the winter as implemented in the Nordic countries.

 

Stuttgart – The number of deaths is expected to rise in Germany this year for the second time in a row again – after a long period of decline. Experts expect about 3450 victims, 2014 were 3377. Almost 16 percent of traffic fatalities last year were pedestrians, more than a third of the 523 killed in traffic pedestrian died in the months of November to January. This figure could be halved, if you believe the studies that come from Nordic countries. Where it is dark in the winter especially long, are reflectors on clothes for pedestrian’s duty.

 

One reader, in Finland grew, told our newspaper, as the runs there: “Every year, in the fall of the great memories – Radio, TV, newspapers, everywhere, Embark visible – forget the reflectors not ‘!.” Even a child never let out the children without reflectors her grandmother. “She did well to us that they as adults during the day has its reflector in his coat pocket and in the evening reshot on tape, so that the hanging at knee level, because the amount the cars have their lights.”

 

Even a small plastic piece that reflects the light of the cars would help. According to Finnish studies, a motorist at night a passerby with reflector detect already 150 meters before. Without reflector is only 40 meters.

 

Prescribing want you in this country nothing

In Finland reflectors since 2003 duty in Germany, they have so far not been successful at pedestrians. School starters wear perhaps reflective safety vest and luminous satchel. Most adults, however, are without reflectors on the road – in winter also often even in dark clothes.

That it would be different better, one acknowledges the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport. “It would have a positive road safety effect if all would move only dressed with reflective and light-colored clothes in public places at night always”, it says. But not everything Am working was also appropriate.

 

France has a high visibility vests mandatory for cyclists

In plain language, Hereby introduce a mandatory reflectors as in Finland or excite at the federal level, we do not think the Stuttgart Department of Transportation. “We inform people about the safety by bright or reflective clothing,” said a spokesman. “People can then decide for themselves how they want to behave.”

 

Also in terms of the visibility of cyclists, are employed in this country to inspect and voluntary. Focus of awareness campaigns is the lighting on the bicycle. The General German Bicycle Club (ADFC) shows students for example by means of a dark tunnel, how bad cyclists are seen without reflectors and lighting.

 

In other countries there is stricter for cyclists partly. Under French law, for example, since October 2008, for cyclists a reflective vest mandatory outside built – at night and in poor visibility. On posters, he was photographed in a yellow safety vest with the slogan: “It’s yellow, it’s ugly, and it matches nothing. But it can save your life. “