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November 2006
13th Anniversary Global Vision Award Honors Sabine Lang
"Sabine Lang is the pioneer vision of South Carolina's founding, and the innovative vision of South Carolina's future."
- Fred Monk CWAC Chairman
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October 2005
Lang-Mekra North America and Trico Electronics have joined forces to bring you SideEyes, the latest in Side Object Detection technology.
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October 2005
MC2 Finishing Solutions, LLC Achieves ISO 9000:2000 & ISO 14001:2004 Certifications
Ridgeway, SC, October 14, 2005
MC2 Finishing Solutions, LLC has recently been certified to the ISO 9000:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 standards by American Quality Assessors, a worldwide ISO registrar.
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SideEyes® provides the driver with information about vehicles and objects residing within the vehicles' “blind spots”. Detection zones are created by an array of infrared lasers which can be custom configured by vehicle type (cars, trucks, and recreational vehicles) to provide optimized object detection for safer driving.

  Why SideEyes? Total Side Crashes in USA
 

Significantly lower cost than comparable technologies

Straight forward integration into vehicle reduces time and cost of implementation; dealer retrofit is an option

Sensing performance comparable with radar and is an excellent supplement to vision systems

Trico Electronics and Lang-Mekra North America have excellent reputations with OE customers for product quality

The small print:
NOTE*: U.S. Patent # 6,377,167, #6,201,236, #5,675,326, #5,463,384, #5,418,359, #5,354,983, #5,311,012, #5,122,796, #4,926,170, #4,766,421, 4 additional pending

WARNING: This system is not designed as a substitute for the driver to look to the side and rear of the vehicle, to observe vehicles. Its function is limited to supplemental use only. Trico has no intent to sell or manufacture the displays as configured in this test vehicle.

*Source data from: Automotive Collision Avoidance
Systems (ACAS) Program. NHTSA, August 2000, USDOT,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Nat’l. Transportation
Statistics 2002, BTS02-08, Washington DC Gov’t. Printing
Office, December 2002

Lang Mekra North America and Trico Electronics have joined forces to bring you SideEyes, the latest in Side Object Detection technology. Please contact either company for additional information.


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