It’s unsettling that this happens enough to require action, but Mercedes-Benz has developed an active safety system to keep people from driving their cars into oncoming traffic. No, really.
The front-mounted cameras combined with the on-board software are set to recognize “Do Not Enter” and other wrong-way signs, and if the driver enters the verboten roadway, the car will make noise and flash warnings on the dash.
This is, apparently, a fairly prominent problem in Germany.
In the last three months, over 25 motorists have died from colliding with a vehicle going the wrong way down a single-direction street, or from drivers veering into oncoming traffic on a two-way road. It’s usually the law-abiding drivers who end up injured. There’s even a word for them: Geisterfaher, or “phantom drivers.” The ADAC, Germany’s largest automobile club, estimates that there are up to 2,800 incidents of wrong-way driving every year, or about seven a day. Sounds steep, but most of them end without a collision.
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