Push-button pressure from the car dashboard (above) is all that is needed to notify the emergency services in an experimental S.O.S. rescue scheme on trial in and around Darmstadt, West Germany. The S.O.S. signal is picked up at a control panel (top), located on a radar screen, and radioed for further details. An initial 160 cars will be trying out the system, which was devised in Germany and is sponsored by the Bonn Research and Technology Ministry. In series production, the dashboard unit will, it is claimed, cost a mere $l70 and should sell like hot cakes.
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Press, 16 April 1980, Page 21
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97Push-button pressure from the car dashboard (above) is all that is needed to notify the emergency services in an experimental S.O.S. rescue scheme on trial in and around Darmstadt, West Germany. The S.O.S. signal is picked up at a control panel (top), located on a radar screen, and radioed for further details. An initial 160 cars will be trying out the system, which was devised in Germany and is sponsored by the Bonn Research and Technology Ministry. In series production, the dashboard unit will, it is claimed, cost a mere $l70 and should sell like hot cakes. Press, 16 April 1980, Page 21
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