Her height class S. Car that predicts the future [Moto 2030]

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There are many pretenders to the throne, but only one king.This Mercedes S -Class is the best -selling luxurious limousine in the history of automotive industry.For a reason.The manufacturer has been issuing a property for decades for the development and development of subsequent generations of this model.Thanks to this, many solutions used in it are pioneering.

This was the case in the past and it is similar today.Let's take a look at the new Mercedes S -class about cryptronism in 223, although most of us will not be able to afford it.Thanks to this, we will find out what future is waiting for automotive.

At first it was Mercedes

A bit by force, but it can be said that Mercedes S -Class is the progenitor of all cars.After all, Karl Benz in 1886 patented his new invention - a self -propelled engine vehicle.Benz Patent-Motorwagen Nummer 1 was the forefather of all Mercedes and the beginning of the automotive industry.

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The patent of the German constructor was entered on the list of the most important documents of humanity collected by UNESCO.The first Benz car had three wheels hung on springs and feather springs and a engine with a capacity of one liter and the power of one mechanical horse.However, the gearbox was missing, the drive was transmitted to the rear axle via the differential.The vehicle constructed in this way reached a maximum speed of 16 km/h.

Benz Patent-Motorwagen Nummer 1 photo: Mercedes

Over the next decades, Mercedes introduced various innovations, even though he had no idea that he was putting the foundations for the construction of the legend, which the S -Class model became. For example, Mercedes 170, whose premiere took place in 1931, he had for the first time the suspension of independent circles had a suspension.

The same model was first equipped with a hydraulically assisted braking system, and only five years later Mercedes 260 D became the first passenger car with a diesel engine.It is not the end.

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Protection against a side collision was tested before the war

Just before the war, in 1939, the company began testing prototypes with a stiff frame that created a safety cage from protecting the side collision and a broken steering column.

In 1949, Mercedes was the first to introduce drum locks in the door.In 1951 - a controlled crumple zone absorbing collision energy.We could exchange it like this, but we do not want to embarrass other manufacturers.In addition, this is a good time to write about Mercedes 220 (in 180), which debuted in 1954.

Post Factum was popularly called "Ponton" or "Winnie" a model that initiated the history of class S. It was a more luxurious, extended version of the model in 120, so this argument is not meaningless.It has also been equipped with a row six -cylinder engine with a capacity of 2.2 liters and 85 HP.

Mercedes 220 (in 180) photo: Mercedes

The history of the Mercedes S -class began with the model in 116

The first official S -class model in history, Mercedes in 116 from 1978, had a pioneering ABS system, preventing wheels blocking during braking.Work on such a solution began in a company from Stuttgart much earlier, as early as 1953.

They were managed by engineer Hans Scherenberg, who quickly went to the board of Mercedes.The same man also had a significant share in the development of the first engine with gas injection, as well as in the development and development of automatic gearboxes.

In 1995, in one of the most powerful models in the history of class S 600 - the first ESC system developed by Bosch, a corrective track, found by Bosch.Currently, all such systems are commonly called the ESP shortcut.

Someone may like it or, not, but it is difficult to discuss with facts.From the beginning of the history of the automotive industry, Mercedes was the driving force of the progress of this industry and tried to offer clients the latest solutions.Even if he sometimes had to use the technical thought of competition.

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Mercedes S -class had a suspension from ... Citroen

This was the case in Mercedes S -Class (model 560 SEL from the series in 126) from 1980, which had a hydropneumatic self -leveling suspension.To use a revolutionary solution developed by Paul Mages, the German company had to buy a license from Citroen, but it did not hesitate to do it.

Sometimes Mercedes was ahead of the competition.Quite spectacular proof was the time of release of the current Audi A8 (D5) model.The luxury limousine from Ingolstadt presented in Barcelona was equipped with many pioneering solutions.

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Mercedes S 560 SEC (W126) for.Mercedes

These included a third level automation, a system of four torsion wheels, a suspension that quickly raises the side of the car before the side collision and an interior full of liquid crystal screens.

The listed solutions appeared only in the latest, just presented class S S -Code model in 223. Fortunately, there is enough of its own Mercedes innovations in it, so that the company has something to brag about.Many of them will appear in the next decade in the cheaper cars of this brand and competition.

Digital projectors in the front lights and on the windshield

One of the most interesting solutions are the front headlights referred to by Mercedes as Digital Light.Behind this little creative name is a truly innovative solution.Progress in the field of electroluminescent diodes (so -called LEDs), miniaturization and growing computers' efficiency, opened the door inaccessible to engineers.

In recent years, manufacturers are outdoing the precision of the spotlights.They use larger LED matrices, which, by extinguishing individual zones, allow you to drive in full light without dazzling other traffic participants.

Mercedes S -class headlight (in 223) photo: Mercedes

Mercedes took a big step forward.Instead of several hundred diodes, he used three, but extremely strong.The beam of the light emitted by them is reflected by 1.3 million microlysts, which gives the actual resolution of the headlights of 2.6 million pixels.

It means that instead of matrixes in the new S -class lights there are ultra -refretionary computer -controlled projectors, which allow you to draw with the light of shapes with unprecedented accuracy.This is not an effective bajer but a solution that measurably improves safety.

Headlights-designers will display signs and images

First of all, you can "cut" elements that are to remain in the shade even more accurately and emphasize others.It will be possible, for example, to select a pedestrian silhouette on the side of the road, so that the driver sees him after dark, but without dazzling this person.

Another advantage of such headlights is to emit light icons and symbols.Like an office projector, they are able to display various shapes on asphalt, e.g. horizontal stripes giving a pedestrian signal or on the contrary - warn other drivers with a person covered by a car.

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The second of the most interesting novelties is a translucent display on the front glass, allowing drivers to enter the world of augmented reality.Other manufacturers also introduce similar solutions (e.g. Volkswagen in the ID.3 model), but in the Mercedes edition it is to work extremely spectacularly.

In the most expensive version, the so -called HUD (Head Up Display) takes almost the entire windscreen.A special projector emits on it an image emulving a 77 -inch screen, located in a virtual space ten meters in front of the driver.

Thanks to this, the reality observed by the windshield can be applied to digital tips: an arrow informing about a turning, a line determining a safe distance behind the driver driving before us or a warning about the risk of collision due to a rapidly inhibiting car.

Mercedes S -class tunnel aerodynamic photo: Mercedes

Mercedes S -Class is streamlined like a drop of water

Another achievement sounds less spectacular, at least until we look at it.A great luxurious class limousine has one of the best air resistance coefficients in the history of automotive industry.Although the front surface of the car is up to 2.5 square meters, its CD coefficient - only 0.22.

Certainly, this required a lot of research and a huge effort of engineers.Among others, (optional) handles were used from the body, but the classic, large mirrors were left instead of using increasingly popular cameras and screens.Therefore, the result achieved is all the more impressive.

Such an attractive air resistance factor means lower fuel consumption while driving and less emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere.Including a number of other solutions makes Mercedes S -in 223 more ecological.

Floor mats are made of old fishing networks

This approach can also be seen in other elements of the vehicle structure.The interior of the new Mercedes is largely made of materials obtained in the recycling process.Instead of luxurious materials, those that save natural resources.

There are almost 100 kg in the whole car.Another 40 kg comes from renewable raw materials.For example, floor mats are made of recovered old fish networks and fabric residues.It sounds less prestigious than sheep's wool, but it is much more environmentally friendly because it reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Mercedes S -Class (in 223) photo: Mercedes

If Mercedes fails to make a solution before the competition, at least he tries to present it in a more advanced version.This is the case, for example, with the system of the speed of the rear axle.

In a more advanced variety of this solution from two offered in the model in 223, the rear wheels can deviate from the longitudinal axis of the vehicle by up to 10 degrees.It looks almost absurd, but allows for a more agile ride and limiting the radius of the powerful limousine to even 10.5 m - a level inaccessible for some compact cars.

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The top airbags for rear seat passengers are also new.Unlike the front ones, in the event of a collision they fill only partly, so their shape adapts to the elements of the car's equipment and children's seats.Surprising that we had to wait so long for - seemingly obvious - a solution that increases safety.

Mercedes S -class. It used to be!

Of course, there will be malcontents who write that we once got excited by engines and the performance of a new S -class model, and now we delight with screens and electronic systems.The truth is that the fastest progress is currently taking place in this area and this is the best field for innovation.In many other technology it has reached the limit.

That is why Mercedes engineers find the most new solutions in digital technologies.Further innovations smuggle into the automotive world through the S -class model.They will pay for them dearly the richest of this world, by the way participating in their popularization.In a few years the cost of such inventions will fall, and then they will go to our cars.

Mercedes S 600 (W140) for.Mercedes