For Mercedes-Benz drivers with imagination - the functionality of MAGIC BODY CONTROL could be compared to a flying carpet evenly sliding over everything. In reality this technology is much more serious than its name makes us think.
For Mercedes-Benz drivers with imagination - the functionality of MAGIC BODY CONTROL could be compared to a flying carpet evenly sliding over everything. In reality this technology is much more serious than its name makes us think.
A system reading the road surface
Once it seemed impossible, but nowadays it has become a reality – Mercedes-Benz has created an auto system able to read the road surface ahead of the vehicle. Suspension by adjusting to the road profile individually lifts up or lowers down each tyre. While the suspension processes an uneven surface, the bodyworks remain stable, and the vehicle literally slides over everything just like a flying carpet.
Creation of MAGIC BODY CONTROL was possible by combining two systems – ROAD SURFACE SCAN, operating by using a video camera installed behind a vehicle windscreen able to read a section of road up to 50 metres ahead of the vehicle and identify even 3 mm changes to the road surface.
The second part of the MAGIC BODY CONTROL is created by ACTIVE BODY CONTROL or active suspension. Its task is to prevent tilting of the bodyworks and retain stability in any driving conditions.
Unique combination of comfort and dynamics
By receiving the data processed by a microprocessor from the ROAD SURFACE SCAN, the active suspension operates using a timing advance feature and is able to perform its rather complicated task due to individual regulation of each suspension rod.
Owing to such principle of operation, vibrations sent by each tyre to the bodyworks during driving over an uneven surface are reduced, practically eliminating any vibration to the bodyworks, created by acceleration, breaking or driving in curves.
The talent of the active suspension is not limited to the processing of an uneven pavement. It also recognises the load created by the passengers and baggage, and compensates for it by lifting up the bodyworks to the initial position. If required by the driving conditions, for example, a vehicle must be driven on a snowy road, Active Body Control increases the clearance of the vehicle by 40 mm!
Thus, by combining the functionality of ROAD SURFACE SCAN and ACTIVE BODY CONTROL, MAGIC BODY CONTROL system offers previously unavailable comfort in combination with the excellent dynamics of the vehicle, smoothing out every road in terms of experienced sensations.
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