#Safety

Electric buses are quiet. It’s great, but it’s also potentially dangerous because other road users can barely hear the vehicle coming. That’s why the industry has been working on an acoustic warning system.  

Intelligent lighting, low energy consumption and a long service life: those are our customers’ three wishes for a modern goods vehicle lighting system - especially in autumn and winter, when fog, rain and early sunsets reduce visibility significantly. MAN relies on LED technology in its vehicles, ensuring maximum safety at the darkest time of year.

Intelligent assistance systems for driving safety and optimum health protection against corona infections: Bus travel with MAN and NEOPLAN. Learn more.

Every year, cyclists and pedestrians are injured in collisions with trucks or buses. To better protect children in particular, MAN employees not only conduct "blind spot training" at schools. MAN has also developed smart assistance systems that prevent accidents.

Developer Benjamin Lachner presents the MAN CruiseAssist. The new assistance system will be available for the MAN TGX and MAN TGS from October 2021.

Slalom in reverse gear using MAN OptiView: Matze Knop and Ross Anto-ny drive like true truckers.

Developer Albert Zaindl presents the new MAN OptiView assistance system in an interview. It will be available for MAN trucks from 2022.

Following the corona test mobile, MAN has now developed a vaccination mobile. The all-electric MAN eTGE brings the corona vaccination and medical staff to patients who cannot get to the vaccination center.

Firefighters make a cutting attempt on a MAN electric bus to create a rescue guide. Find out more here.

Combating the spread of coronavirus: MAN together with its partners has developed a unique and innovative mobile test laboratory.

Protective hygiene doors for drivers, non-contact hand sanitisers for passengers: MAN is protecting drivers and passengers from coronavirus and other infectious diseases with its all-round hygiene package that is available for retrofitting in all its bus models.

The health of passengers and drivers has top priority when operating buses. In an interview, Heinz Kiess, Head of Bus Product Marketing, explains what bus operators should pay particular attention to.

Fast, flexible, inexpensive – and  especially safe for passengers: Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems are the ideal solution for large cities, claims transportation researcher Professor Andreas Knie. What's behind all this?

The bus drivers learn how to master hazardous situations at the ADAC Driving Safety Centre in Berlin-Brandenburg.

Transporting timber is considered to be a particularly demanding field within trucking. MAN ProfiDrive^® is now providing special training specifically for this sector, because even diehard timber drivers still have much to learn. 

Meering Touringcars is a unique success story. This is based not least on close collaboration with MAN. The star of the fleet is a new NEOPLAN Skyliner.