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    Technical highlights: Five years of the Electronic Stability Program ESP®: Five years ago, a landmark in automotive engineering went into series production: the Electronic Stability Program (ESP®). With this invention, Mercedes-Benz made a major contribution to active vehicle safety. ESP® reduces the risk of skids and slides during comering and keeps a car on track even in extreme conditions, for example on wet or icy roads. Today, this system is standard specification on all Mercedes passenger cars. The foundations were laid by Mercedes-Benz back in the seventies when it developed the anti-lock braking system (ABS) and acceleration skid control (ASR). This led as early as 1987 to the first trials with vehicles equipped with a so-called "transverse slip control" system. Since then, this joint invention by Mercedes-Benz and Bosch has proved itself millions of times over in practice and is also available to other manufacturers.
    Technical highlights- Five years of the ESP
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    Technical highlights: Five years of the Electronic Stability Program ESP®. ESP® operates by monitoring and comparing: sensors record driver and vehicle behaviour. They send their data to a high-performance microcomputer in which a mathematical reference model is stored. The vehicle's actual status is compared with what the reference model indicates is appropriate in the given situation, thus identifying any risk of a skid or slide. In physical terms, skidding is simply a turning of the vehicle about its vertical axis. The faster this rotation, the greater the skidding movement and the greater the risk of accident. The ESP® computer continuously compares the actual behaviour of the vehicle with the pre-programmed ideal values. The moment the car deviates from its ideal line, a specially developed control logic causes the system to intervene with split-second speed, bringing the car back on track. lt does this m two ways: by precisely controlled braking at one or more wheels and/or by re
    Technical highlights- Five years of the ESP
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