Comments on: Mercedes: We Haff Vays uf Keeping You Avake!

By: NickR

NickR — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:32:19 +0000

Citroen already offers a weird (but effective) system that shakes your buttocks when you switch lanes without indicating (no, we are not joking).

If all the cars in Toronto had systems like that there’d be a lot fewer accidents or a lot less cellulite. Bring it on.

By: dean

dean — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:14:58 +0000

But can it make you pull over and grab some sleep?

By: Stephan Wilkinson

Stephan Wilkinson — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:18:31 +0000

This might be more amusing if my ambulance corps hadn’t responded to a fell-asleep accident last week, at 0430, that killed a 20-year-old woman. Not a pretty sight.

By: crc

crc — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:08:26 +0000

Hopefully it will come with a snooze bar. Then I could get back to sleep until the next imminent crash.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:44:36 +0000

Can you at least switch it off…

Nice if the alarm is comfortably monotonous, like sheep leaping over a gate in an orderly fashion…

Yawn…

By: Chaser

Chaser — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:31:36 +0000

Mercedes’ competitors could have a field day with this one, implying that the driving experience of the car alone isn’t enough to keep you awake.

“Our new BMW M1025xi doesn’t need electronics to keep the driver awake. Adrenaline does the job just fine!”