Tesla has signed a deal with Emergency Safety Solutions, the company behind the Hazard Enhanced Location Protocol (H.E.L.P.), to deploy the safety software on its vehicles across the globe, as detailed in a press release on Wednesday.
The deployment of the H.E.L.P. software will initially take place in North America, later expanding to the rest of the world. The software will be added to Tesla’s vehicles through an over-the-air (OTA) software update.
The news marks the safety company’s first time deploying the H.E.L.P. software in passenger vehicles and is expected to help further increase safety across multiple of Tesla’s vehicles.
The H.E.L.P. technology is built to improve roadside safety for passengers and vulnerable or disabled vehicles.
“This is great news for significantly increasing roadside safety,” said Emergency Safety Solutions CEO Tom Metzger. “Tesla is a leader in bringing first-time innovation to passenger vehicles and is leading the way by implementing H.E.L.P. technology on potentially millions of Tesla vehicles worldwide. It’s a monumental step in the effort to overcome the troubling safety issue of crashes into disabled and vulnerable vehicles, which tragically injure or kill tens of thousands around the world each year.”
Here’s a demo of hazard lighting from ESS on a Tesla, to let other vehicles see stranded cars better:
Last month, the Tesla Model Y scored five stars of the European New Car Assessment Programme’s (Euro NCAP’s) safety rating system, scoring a 97 percent for the “highest overall score among any vehicle tested under Euro NCAP’s newest, most stringest test protocol.”
