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Hazard Warnings

Benefit from real-time event data from the connected Mercedes‑Benz vehicle fleet to warn road users of various dangerous situations.

Retrieve aggregated data about local hazards – from accident to fog warnings

The Hazard Warnings product allows you to retrieve anonymized event data about local hazards from the Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet.

The dataset consists of different types of safety-related events, ranging from dangerous traffic situations to local weather conditions.

With this data, you can show your customers or residents immediate hazards on the road, whether they are motorists or other road users, increase general and individual traffic safety, optimize navigation services or traffic messages such as radio stations or traffic apps with valuable real-time road safety data, and provide your customers with constant updates about their safety in road traffic.

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Data Points

What data is included?

Optimize your applications, your customer and resident services, your navigation services or your traffic alerts using these data points:

  • Vehicle accident notification

  • Broken down vehicle warning

  • Slippery road warning

  • Heavy rain warning

  • Fog/reduced visibility warning

  • Crosswind warning

  • Emergency breaking alert

  • General warnings

  • Hazard light notifications

  • Potholes

  • Bumps

Benefits

Your advantages at a glance Smarter navigation through real-time event data

Improve your navigation service by integrating precise hazard and event information captured by the advanced sensors of the Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet.

  • Immediate hazard visibility

    Display relevant hazards directly in your navigation interface to support timely and safer decision-making for all road users.

  • Real-time updates

    Provide your customers with up-to-the-second information on changing road conditions – ensuring they stay informed, no matter where they are.

  • Enhanced traffic safety

    Use event-based insights to proactively reduce risks on the road and contribute to a safer mobility experience.

How it works

Valid real-time information via vehicle sensors

1. Recognition of dangerous traffic incidents

Based on their ABS and ESP sensors our connected Mercedes‑Benz vehicles detect a wide variety of hazardous situations. These include slippery roads via tire sensors, broken-down vehicles on the emergency lane or accidents that have just happened. These and other events are transmitted to the Mercedes‑Benz data backend and made available to our customers in anonymized form.

Thanks to the Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet, you can find out about potholes, for example, detected by the vehicle sensors.
Thanks to the Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet, you can find out about potholes, for example, detected by the vehicle sensors.

2. Transmission of the most local weather conditions

Classic weather service data does not capture local road sections, the sensor technology of the Mercedes‑Benz vehicle fleet helps out here. If the vehicle sensors identify heavy rainfall, fog or dangerous crosswinds, we are happy to make this data available to increase safety on the roads.

Warn about slippery roads using our real-time sensor data to protect road users in the immediate vicinity from the hazard.
Warn about slippery roads using our real-time sensor data to protect road users in the immediate vicinity from the hazard.

3. Anonymized data for road safety

The data is always anonymized and only transmitted from Mercedes‑Benz vehicles for which the vehicle owners have given their consent. 

Do not allow motorists to drive into poor visibility conditions without timely warning.
Do not allow motorists to drive into poor visibility conditions without timely warning.
Thanks to the Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet, you can find out about potholes, for example, detected by the vehicle sensors.
Thanks to the Mercedes-Benz vehicle fleet, you can find out about potholes, for example, detected by the vehicle sensors.
Warn about slippery roads using our real-time sensor data to protect road users in the immediate vicinity from the hazard.
Warn about slippery roads using our real-time sensor data to protect road users in the immediate vicinity from the hazard.
Do not allow motorists to drive into poor visibility conditions without timely warning.
Do not allow motorists to drive into poor visibility conditions without timely warning.
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