Here’s how you can find out who’s scratching your car
Cars are expensive, we all know this. So, imagine you just bought a brand new car and somebody scratched/bumped it in a parking lot or somewhere where you weren’t present – and then you’re left with the damage. Yup, that sucks.
Luckily now there exists new technology which will allow you to know exactly who did what to your car when you weren’t watching. This will certainly spare a lot of investigations, headaches and money!
Hella unveiled a new electronic sensor which goes by the name of Intelligent Damage Detection System which can take notice of vehicle body panels sustaining damage.
“We basically implement a sense of touch for the whole vehicle for the outer shell,” says Kristian Döscher, Hella’s head of marketing-original equipment. “Everything that is digitized so far in terms of diagnosis is only related to electronic infrastructure, but not the outer shell of the car.”
The system uses a thin foil type sensor that can be glued to the back side of body panels and then get connected to the existing parking sensors. The more the better and the foil works with all kind of panels and materials.
Using an advanced algorithm, the damage detection system can tell if a body panel is getting scratched, dented or even punctured. If the car is equipped with GPS, the system will create an event log entry with the location, time and the type of damage the respective panel sustained. Also, if the vehicle comes with cameras, they can instantly be turned on and capture the event so the owner has hard evidence for insurance companies.
BMW and several other car manufacturers and companies are already interested and Hella says they could bring it into production as soon as 2018.