Innovations of Advanced Safety Electronics

Innovations of Advanced Safety Electronics
Like the E65/66, the E60 features the new byteflight fiber-optic technology.
The ASK system consists of a main control unit, the Safety and Gateway Module SGM, and various satellites. Distributed with their sensors at strategic points around the vehicle, the satellites exchange information with the SGM.
The advantages of the new safety technology can be summarized as follows:
^ High-speed data acquisition and transmission (10Mbit/s)
^ More exact crash detection
^ Networked airbag control system
^ Selective triggering
^ More precise control of the intelligent airbags
^ Dependable triggering
^ Immunity to electromagnetic interference
^ Battery cable diagnosis with cutoff of the safety battery terminal when required