BMW Rescue Manual Information for Rescue Services 2003

Short Description
Optimum safety under all conditions is a natural development objective for BMW products. Bringing about the “Ultimate Driving Machine” thus does not just amount to providing attractive and technically sophisticated vehicles. It is just as natural for BMW to have a suitable safety concept. The BMW safety philosophy is impressively reasserted by the introduction of the “Intelligent Safety Information System”, ISIS for short, beginning with the E65 model series. This is based on the approach of considering all systems in their entirety, i.e. precise coordination of all active and passive safety systems. This stretches far beyond merely satisfying the legal requirements and also takes into account the necessary technical preconditions for life-saving applications.

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If one of the restraint systems is triggered, an emergency call is automatically made to the service provider via the factory-installed, activated mobile cellular phone in conjunction with the navigation system. In this process, the vehicle data, the phone number of the vehicle involved in the accident and the current position are transmitted as an SMS to the service provider’s call centre. The service provider tries to make a call back to the transmitted phone number. If this attempt fails, the nearest rescue control centre is notified and a rescue operation is initiated.
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Driver’s airbag
The driver’s airbag is integrated in the impact absorber on the steering wheel. An acceleration detected in the sensor is integrated and evaluated. The driver’s airbag is fired once the appropriate triggering thresholds have been exceeded. The squib in the gas generator receives the firing voltage from the airbag control unit or from the relevant satellite. The gas generated after firing escapes into the airbag.
Passenger airbag
The passenger airbag is located in the instrument panel above the glove compartment on the passenger side. A seat-occupancy detector has been integrated for years in order to prevent unnecessary triggering of the passenger airbag in the event of a crash (passenger seat is not occupied). The front passenger seat is identified as being occupied from a weight of 12 kg by the sensors in the front passenger seat and through evaluation of the data in the airbag control unit or in the satellite and the system is thereby activated.
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