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Emergency call/Advanced Automatic Crash Notification (AACN): Signal path

To ensure that the occupants of a vehicle receive help as quickly as possible in the event of a crash, an emergency telephone call function is triggered automatically.

The following graphic shows the signal shape of the communication between airbag control unit and telephone control unit as an oscilloscope measurement.

Fig 1: Display - Emergency Call/Advanced Automatic Crash Notification Screen
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