Mercedes-Benz Actros Camera Tech

The new camera tech aboard the Mercedes-Benz Actros has changed the way trucks will be looked at hereafter.

- Bhushan Mhapralkar

Extending a significant gain in the safety of those on board and those in the surrounding, the new Mercedes-Benz Actros has come to flaunt a new camera technology onboard. What was being talked and experimented upon until have has to come to reach a certain commercialization level on the Actros in the form of cameras positioned on the roof frame. The display of these cameras is a HD unit on the inside of the A-pillars of the Daimler’s flagship offering. Amounting to significant gains in terms of safety on account of higher visibility and lesser blind spots, the new camera tech on board the Actros has made those large elephant-ears like rearview wide-angle mirrors redundant. The result of this is a gain in aerodynamics and a subsequent decrease in fuel consumption. The camera technology, termed as MirrorCam, provides the driver of Actros an unobstructed view of the rear and the near surrounding area.