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These QR codes tell rescuers how to safely pluck you from your wrecked Mercedes

February 17, 2014

Modern cars might be safe, but boy are they complicated. Rescue crews can be faced with an ordeal trying to figure out how to remove victims from crashes. Fortunately, Mercedes has an innovative solution to this problem: QR Codes.

You have probably run into these codes in your life, you scan them with your smartphone and they take you to a website. What Mercedes has done is created QR codes that take rescuers to information about the car.

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Tags: QR, Mercedes, Save Lives
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