Wirtschaft in Ostwürttemberg 06 February 2015

On 5 January 2015, Daimler CEO Dr. Dieter Zetsche presented in his keynote on the occasion of the CES consumer electronics trade show Mercedes’ future vision of an autonomously diving car with a spectacular prototype, called „F 015 - Luxury in Motion“: A central aspect behind this prototype was the communication of an autonomous car with its environment. The Aalen-based laser specialist LOBO developed especially for this show car a miniaturized laser projector, which has been integrated into the Mercedes star and which is capable of projecting a huge variety of information onto the road ahead of the car, as for example distance information and warnings to pedestrians or to other cars. Whereas in a conventional car the driver would invite a pedestrian to cross the road just with a gesture, this prototype projects with lasers a cross walk on the road indicating a pedestrian in an optically and acoustically way to cross the road.