The company is teaming up with BMW AG at Agritechnica, the world's leading trade fair for agricultural machinery, to show how, in future, car drivers and motorcyclists can be given advance warning of the presence of large machines on the road ahead.
Communication between road users
The position data of agricultural machines and tractors which are running on public roads are transmitted by the new system in real time to assistance or navigation systems in the vehicles of other road users. In this way, drivers of passenger cars and trucks can be notified and warned proactively about the position and status of agricultural machines on their route. If the number, width and speed of the agricultural machines are such that they cause delays - in the case of intensive transport activities on a given route during silage maize harvesting or slurry application, for example - it is possible for the system to suggest alternative routes to the driver.
