Critical situation as a stroke of luck
Critical situation as a stroke of luck
Momcilo Karanovic bravely hits the brakes of his unassuming Opel Astra. A red Skoda pulling out of a parking place at a fast food restaurant turned onto Ehlersstraße, initially stopped at the exit only to pull out abruptly. Without the braking maneuver, there might have been a collision. Karanovic, a test engineer at ZF, was not angry at the careless driver. For him, the situation is more a stroke of luck. That’s because his Opel Astra is not a normal vehicle, but is equipped with the high-performance ZF Pro AI control unit, highly complex sensors, cameras, lidar systems and data recording devices. As soon as the ZF engineer has completed the test route, he will look at the computer to see how the test car systems handled the tricky situation.