Scania

Scania Driver Support

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Scania Driver Support is a real-time support system that coaches you with hints and feedback to refine your driving style. This innovation, which is now standard on new Scania long-haulage vehicles specified with retarder, EBS and a GRS gearbox, helps you maintain the skills obtained during driver training. It focuses on key factors that heavily influence safety and economy.

Scania Driver Support continually analyses data from sensors in the vehicle to help enhance driver performance. It coaches the driver with advice and hints underway and makes an accumulated assessment of driving style. Tips and scores are displayed in four categories in the instrument cluster.

What is measured?
Hill-driving: Uses gears, accelerator pedal and vehicle momentum in varying topography
Anticipation: Anticipates different situations, based on accelerations and decelerations as well as the interval between accelerating and braking
Brake use: Makes efficient use of the standard and  auxiliary brake system (Scania Retarder and exhaust brake).
Choice of gears: Selects and shifts gears to match engine load and terrain

Using Scania Driver Support extends the positive effects of driver training courses. Tests have shown that Scania Driver Training can reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% immediately. Combined with Scania Driver Support, variation in fuel consumption is also dramatically reduced from 15-20% to around 5%, indicating a much more consistent driving style.

Lane Departure Warning (LDW) Lane departure warning helps the driver stay on course even in narrow lanes on the highway.

Scania LDW (lane departure warning) is a safety system that has been specially developed to take into account driver behaviour as well as adverse weather conditions. This clever system warns the driver if the vehicle unintentionally crosses lane markings on the road.

A series of features unique to Scania LDW reduce the risk of false alerts. In addition, the system monitors steering wheel movements in a way that allows it to detect active steering input as opposed to inattention. The final result is a vehicle that keeps an extra eye on your safety.

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Stay safely at a distance, even in stop-and-go traffic.

Scania ACC (adaptive cruise control) assists the driver in maintaining a constant time gap to vehicles ahead, and warns the driver if the distance closes suddenly. The preferred time gap can be set in five steps, the settings for which are indicated in the main instrument.

Scania's ACC system analyses road speed, data from the engine, Scania Retarder and wheel brakes to maintain the pre-set time gap. It also alerts the driver when the gap closes rapidly, but never takes over completely. This is to avoid inattention caused by overconfidence in the system. At present, Scania ACC is available on long-haul tractor units equipped with Scania ESP and Scania Retarder.

Camera system For added safety, visibility and convenience, Scania offers front- and rear-view cameras, complete with full-view dashboard displays.

Our front-view camera automatically starts at speeds below 30 km/h, providing you with a clear, unobstructed view of your immediate surroundings. For a more complete perspective, your vehicle can also be equipped with a rear-view camera. In both cases, display monitors are located directly in front of the driver. This ensures a wider field of vision, free from rear blind spots and neck craning. Whether reversing, docking or manoeuvring through tight spaces, safe handling is rarely this satisfying, or this simple.

Brake assist With an electronic braking system, brake assist helps the driver achieve maximum retardation in an emergency stop.

Experience shows that in stressful situations drivers often believe that they apply the brakes fully, yet there is more braking power available. This system, which is integrated with EBS, supports the driver by applying additional brake pressure, and by making full use of all available friction. Similar technologies have been in use on passenger cars for several years, and have proven equally effective for large transport, municipal and emergency vehicles.