All International® On-Highway Trucks To Come Standard With Bendix® Wingman® Fusion™
“Bendix’s ongoing partnership with Navistar is built on years
of shared commitment to driver, vehicle, and highway safety,” said Scott
Burkhart, Bendix vice president – sales, marketing, and business development.
“In 2016, International broke new ground in North America as the first OEM to
make collision mitigation technology standard on its then-new LT Series, and
its positioning of Wingman Fusion as standard equipment on its complete line of
on-highway tractors is both a point of pride for the entire Bendix team and
another step forward alongside a true leader in our industry.”
Across North America, fleets of all sizes and applications
have adopted Wingman Fusion in support of their safety efforts. Bendix proudly
works with each to help enhance roadway safety and put professional drivers in
safer trucks.
“As part of our DriverFirst™ philosophy, we concentrate on consistently improving
the overall driver experience, safety included,” said Jim Nachtman, director,
heavy-duty, Marketing, International Truck. “Partnering with Bendix to make
Fusion™ standard
on all of International’s heavy-duty vehicles makes for an important joint
contribution to make North American roadways safer for everyone.”
Bendix® Wingman® Fusion
combines and cross-checks information from sensors that are working together –
not just in parallel – along with powerful computing. The combined technologies
– radar, camera, and brakes – create a system that typically assesses
situations faster and reacts earlier, while also helping to significantly
reduce false alerts and false interventions.
By creating a highly detailed and accurate data picture,
Wingman Fusion delivers enhanced rear-end collision mitigation, and adaptive
cruise control, along with following distance alerts, stationary object alerts,
lane departure warning, alerts when speeding, and braking on stationary
vehicles – all while prioritizing alerts to help reduce driver distraction that
may result from multiple alerts sounding simultaneously.
Wingman Fusion integrates and advances a proven suite of
Bendix safety technologies into a comprehensive driver assistance package
that’s capable of alerting a driver, as well as decreasing the vehicle’s speed
significantly compared to previous systems – all of which helps mitigate
potential collisions or reduce their severity. And because it is built on the
foundational technology of the Bendix® ESP® full-stability
program, Fusion also helps drivers avoid additional crash situations, including
rollovers, loss-of-control, and sideswipe crashes.
Event-based data – including video – can be wirelessly
transmitted for driver coaching and analysis by fleet safety personnel. Other
options include blind spot detection that helps drivers address vehicles in
their blind spots that may not be visible in their mirrors. The forward-facing
camera of Wingman Fusion is powered by the Mobileye System-on-Chip EyeQ
processor with state-of-the-art vision algorithms.
“Over the past several years, fleets equipping Fusion have
reported significant reductions in rear-end collisions – as much as 90 percent
– and decreased severity of those that did occur,” said TJ Thomas, Bendix
director of marketing and customer solutions – Controls. “And driver feedback
has been positive, including higher satisfaction than with radar-only
technologies, especially in terms of false alerts and interventions.”
Thomas emphasized that safety systems like Wingman® Fusion™ are driver assistance – not driver replacement –
technologies. They are not intended to encourage or enable aggressive driving,
but to complement safe driving practices. Skilled, alert drivers supported by
ongoing, comprehensive training remain at the heart of highway safety, and
responsibility for the safe operation of a driver assistance system-equipped
vehicle remains with the driver at all times.
Data provided by Wingman Fusion can be a valuable tool for
creating driver training and support programs, by providing performance and
event-based information that can further help fleet managers and drivers
strengthen safety.
Fusion is part of Bendix’s ever-growing portfolio of
technologies that deliver on areas critical to fleet and owner-operator
success, including safety, equipment reliability, performance and efficiency,
and lower cost of vehicle ownership.
Further Bendix insight on advanced safety technology
development, driver assistance systems, and commercial vehicle safety
regulations – as well as a host of other product- and service-related content
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center at knowledge-dock.com.
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