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Combining a suite of the company’s advanced safety technologies – radar, camera, the vehicle’s brakes, and SafetyDirect by Bendix CVS – into a comprehensive driver assistance system, Bendix Wingman Fusion is a first.

It integrates technology like the Bendix ESP electronic stability program, Wingman Advanced collision mitigation technology, and the AutoVue lane-departure warning system. Built on these existing technologies, Wingman Fusion gathers input through radar, video, and the vehicle’s brakes, creating a highly detailed data picture.

Its stationary vehicle braking capability is made possible by combining both radar and camera data to confirm a vehicle ahead, and is activated at speeds above 15 mph. When the system definitively recognizes a large, stationary, metallic, in-lane object as a vehicle, it notifies the driver up to 3.5 seconds before a potential impact. If the driver takes no action, the system can automatically engage the brakes.

Wingman Fusion’s overspeed alert and action can be activated at 37 mph or above, and uses the system’s camera to actually ‘read’ roadside speed limit signs, working in tandem with Bendix ESP to alert the driver when the vehicle is travelling a specified amount over the posted limit. The system provides two customizable levels of intervention: Level one, initially set for 5 to 9 mph over the limit, is an audible warning; level two, if the vehicle is travelling 10 mph or more over the limit, is an audible alert accompanied by a one-second engine de-throttle.

Following-distance alerts and lane-departure warning, previously available as features in separate Bendix safety technologies, are both integrated into Wingman Fusion as well. When driving too close to a forward vehicle, the system will sound an alert that silences when the gap with the forward vehicle grows.

Wingman Fusion is available to all major North American manufacturers of class 8 trucks for integration into their vehicle platforms.

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Rolf Lockwood is editor emeritus of Today's Trucking and a regular contributor to Trucknews.com.


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