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AN automatic safety system that can detail injuries to emergency services in a crash has been axed for a lack of interest.
BMW Australia corporate communications manager Toni Andreevski said the system was part of its Connected Drive package.
"The take-up rate was less than 100 customers out of a total of 17,000 new car sales a year, so we no longer offer it," he said.
"BMW was paying for the first year and then customers could choose to continue but few did.
"It was only a couple of hundred dollars a year."
He said the technology was also limited in Australia because of a lack of universal mobile phone coverage.
The BMW system estimates the injuries passengers have received and relays that information to medical personnel.
When an accident occurs, data about the vehicle and its location are sent automatically to BMW Assists' call centre providers, who then call 000.
Information culled from the dozen or so on-board car sensors is also analysed by software that was developed by BMW and the William Lehman Injury Research Centre in Miami.
The program determines the severity of injuries by synthesizing information about whether passengers in the front seats wore seat belts, what the car's speed was at impact, where the car was hit and whether the airbags deployed.
Andreevski said they began phasing out the system late last year.
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