TheMercedes-BenzQR code system may help emergency workers to respond quickly and safely rescue trapped occupants in wrecked vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz QR Codes can save lives

The Mercedes-Benz QR codes can be scanned by a camera-equipped smart-phone or tablet and will provide a rescue map for every vehicle type, and also direct emergency personnel to a website with the specific rescue sheet they need to reference.

The idea is that fire-fighters, paramedics and police don’t accidentally cut through a power line or trigger an airbag and so that they know where important parts like the battery and tanks are located.

The Mercedes-Benz QR codes identify the vehicle reliably, make fundamental information about the vehicle visible immediately and automatically direct to the website with the specific rescue sheet.

In order to make it easy to find the label with the potentially lifesaving QR code,Mercedes-Benz places one on the fuel tank flap and the other on the B-pillar on the opposite vehicle side. For it seldom occurs that both these parts are badly damaged at the same time in an accident, and they are furthermore easily accessible from the outside.

Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and safety innovations that later became common in other vehicles, and the QR code system will be no different. The brand is considering retrofitting the QR Codes to older vehicles and is waiving the right to patent the innovation so that other automakers can also take advantage of it.