Crashed Cars to Test Message for Help

There is no goold place to have a car crash-but some places are worse than others. In a foreign country, for instance, 51­­­­__ to explain via cell-phone that you are upside down in a ditch when you cannot speak the local language can fatally delay the arrival of the mergency services.

But an answer may be at hand. Researchers funded by the European Commission are beginning tests of a system called Emerge that _52__ senses when a car has crashed and sends a text message telling emergenc services in the local language that the accident has taken place.

The system was _53_ by ERTICO, a transport research organization based in Brussels, Belguim. Cars are fitted with a cell-phone-sized device attached _54_the undersie of the dashboard which is activated by the same sensor that triggers the airbag in a crash. The device _55_ a cell-phone circuit, a GPS positioning unit, and a microphone and loudspeaker.

It registers the severity of the crash by _56_ the deceleration data from the airbag’s sensor, Using GPS information, it works out which country the car is in ,and from this it determines _57­ which language to compose an alert message detailing precise location of the accident.

The device then automatically makes a call to the local emergency services 58 if the car’s occupants are conscious, they can communicate with the operator 59 the speaker and microphone.

E –merge also transmits the vehicles make, model, color and license number, and its heading when it crashed, which in turn indicates on which side of a multi-lane highwan it ended up.

This60 the emergency services find the vehicle as soon as they arrive on the scene,“We can waste a large61 time searching for an incident.”says Jim Hammond, a (an) 62 in vehicle technology at the Association of Chief Police Officers in the UK. Tests will begin soon with police car fleets in the UK. Trials have already started in Germany, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy.

In-car systems that summon the emergency services after a crash have63 been fitted in some premium cars. ERTICO says that64 EU states are willing to fund the necessary infrastructure; E-merge could be working by 2008.

A study by French car maker Renault concluded that the system could save up to 6000 of the 4000 lives lost each year onf Europe’s, and prevent a similar number of serious in-juries.

The Renault study estimates that fitting E-merge to every car in Europe would eventually save around 150 billion per 65 in terms of reduced costs to health services and insurance companies, and fewer lost working days.

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