Attention Assist

[HumberMart]

Damon's sounds good, believe it or not I dont think I have ever been there (not that I can remember anyway).
With Lincoln Mercedes being only down the road maybe we could arrange for the to loan us 2 new E Class Convertible's when theyre out

Yes I'm sure if we threatened to drive in convoy at 5 mph (in limp mode of course) through Lincoln, to protest about the injector failures, they'd quickly come up with a pair of convertible's

 

[mbenz76]

Has anyone experienced the Attention Assist yet then?

 

[Pottsy]

Yes, most journeys (so it is turned off).

 

[HumberMart]

No chance of dozing off personally - just on the edge of the seat all the time - waiting for an injector to fail!

 

[HumberMart]

Well it finally happened !!

I drove down to Tooting last Saturday morning after a late night on the Friday, and was feeling unusually tired, even though it was about 11.00 am.

While struggling to keep alert on the M1 after about 1.40 hours of driving, the Attention Assist Alarm went off!

It did the same about 30 mins later, when the shock from the first alarm had warn off.

Now I'm a believer !!!

 

[jeremytaylor]

Avon Ice Touring ST, and strangely they are slightly quieter and slightly more comfortable that the standard Conti summer tyres too.

My winter tyres (on a W211) are Michelin Pilot Aplins, and I find they are quieter than my standard Conti Sport Contacts, too.

 

[219]

Another example is the famous Ford Pinto fuel tank problem, where Ford US did a cost benefit analysis on either paying the compo for victims burned to death or recalling all Pinto's!

The one I remember reading about , I think it was back in the 1970's that all this kicked off , was the famous Firestone tyres claim : American driver ran over a brick out on the highway , this resulted in a blow out which caused the car to crash , resulting in some injury .

Said driver sued Firestone , who were held liable BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT PUBLISHED A WARNING THAT DRIVING OVER A BRICK MIGHT CAUSE TYRE DEFLATION !

 

[mbenz76]

Got the first alerm from my Attention Assist over the weekend.

After a VERY long day in London I was driving back up the M1 at about 2am. Tired, but not so much as I felt I had to stop. My driving was normal (ie. no unusual drifts of steering etc.).

Then I got the alert in the cluster.

I silenced it and carried on as I wasn't that tired.

About 20 minutes later up it came again.

This continued every 20 minutes or so until I finally got home at about 3:30am.

I am not convinced this system is anything more than a gimmick. I wasn't tired (unless the car knows something I don't) and my driving was fine (as my passengers also noted), so why was it going off? Was it just time of day related?

 

[Toodeep]

Got the first alerm from my Attention Assist over the weekend.

After a VERY long day in London I was driving back up the M1 at about 2am. Tired, but not so much as I felt I had to stop. My driving was normal (ie. no unusual drifts of steering etc.).

Then I got the alert in the cluster.

I silenced it and carried on as I wasn't that tired.

About 20 minutes later up it came again.

This continued every 20 minutes or so until I finally got home at about 3:30am.

I am not convinced this system is anything more than a gimmick. I wasn't tired (unless the car knows something I don't) and my driving was fine (as my passengers also noted), so why was it going off? Was it just time of day related?

So this thread confirms it. Far from a sophisticated analysis of 70+ parameters, Attention Assist will go off if you drive for more than an hour or so when most people are asleep. Do they not work nights in Germany? Charlatans!

I'm usually quite tired going home from Feltham (nr Heathrow) to south London between 7 and 8 am. My 'attention assist' is the rowdy work colleagues I give a lift to ever since the time I nodded off whilst stationary under the bright sunshine in a traffic jam on the M4. I was woken up by the car behind to see a 150 yard gap opened up in front of me. I had only been driving for 20 minutes but must surely have shown signs of fatigue (as the car would have known if it had a yawn sensor ), yet not a peep from the Attention Assist. Next evening, I came over all generous and offered to regularly take a couple guys to Hammersmith after work.

 

[mbenz76]

Did MB ever say what the parameters were that it monitors?

And does anyone have experience of similar systems from other manufacturers? And if so, are they just as useless?

On the plus side, Attention Assist was free!

 

[mbenz76]

Driving home from London up the M1 this afternoon and Attention Assist went off twice on the journey.

Both times after 4pm when the light was very poor.

I was feeling a bit tired as I had been up since early and had a busy day so far, but was not falling asleep in the least!

At least it proves the system doesn't just work in the middle of the night