A host of Stellantis models created given that the 2018 model year and sold in the U.S. now alert drivers to nearby firetrucks, ambulances, and road hazards, all since of a close to-miss that a hearing-impaired Stellantis employee had with an emergency automobile.

The Stellantis employee recommended some type of program to alert drivers to keep away from such incidents via Star*Up, the carmaker’s internal competitors exactly where staff can present their exciting suggestions. The employee’s suggestion prompted Stellantis to adopt the HAAS Alert program that receives notifications from the HAAS Alert’s Safety Cloud platform utilized by thousands of public and private roadway fleets in North America as a automobile-to-almost everything and digital alerting answer.

“We said we need to implement this,” Stellantis’ manager of international innovation and digital partnerships, Trpko Blazevski stated. “We need to do something for our customers. So we did that very quickly to deliver this. It was key and critical based on her experience that this can’t be model year ’24. We have to go back as far as we can and make this available to our existing customers that have our vehicles on the road today.”

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The warning flashes on the infotainment screen although also playing an alert chime. It is enabled when an emergency automobile has its lights or siren on, which means drivers will not be alerted to emergency cars that are parked or not responding to emergencies, Auto News notes.

The HAAS Alert Safety Cloud also enables the Hazard Enhanced Location Protocol that alerts drivers to disabled cars. Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram cars constructed from the 2018 model year give owners among 15 to 20 seconds of warning if a automobile is disabled ahead. HAAS Alert is also pushing to make building and function zones safer.

“We’re actually starting to make a pretty big push into road construction and work zones,” HAAS Alert senior vice president of connected cars Jeremy Agulnek stated. “There’s a big emphasis on work zone safety nationally, so we’re really trying to just get the word out.”