Fredrich Claezon honored with European Commercial Vehicle Safety Award

This year, the prize is being awarded for the 28th time by the EVU, the German Road Safety Council (DVR) and DEKRA for outstanding technical innovations or for an outstanding body of work to individuals who have made a special contribution to the safety of commercial vehicles. Fredrich Claezon was born in 1977. He studied computer science at the University of Linköping in Sweden and graduated with a Master of Science degree in 2006.

In the same year, he began his career as an integration engineer at General Motors / Saab Automobile in Trollhättan. There he was responsible for the driving simulator. This position also included the pre-development of functions of certain Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), such as drowsiness and inattention detection, but also simulator-based investigations of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI).

In 2008, Fredrich Claezon moved to SCANIA in Södertälje as a development engineer for safety systems. He was also responsible for all airbag systems for heavy commercial vehicles. He also took over the pre-development project "Pedestrian and two-wheeler detection".

In 2011, he was appointed Senior Engineer with responsibility for the development of the "Rollover Airbag Control System" for commercial vehicle cabins and for the series introduction of a MobilEye-based camera system used for the lane keeping and emergency braking system. He defined the basic principles for this and developed the corresponding software. Many of the ADAS developed by Fredrich Claezon are already in series production. He is currently working intensively on the autonomous driving of heavy commercial vehicles.

Clemens Klinke, member of the DEKRA SE Board of Management and responsible for the Automotive business unit, explains: "There has been enormous progress in terms of road safety in recent decades, particularly in the commercial vehicle sector. The accident statistics are impressive proof of this. Fredrich Claezon's work has made a significant contribution to ensuring that this positive development can continue in the future. We are honoring this contribution with the European Commercial Vehicle Safety Award."

DVR Managing Director Christian Kellner paid tribute to Fredrich Claezon's achievements, saying: "Together with its members, the DVR is working hard to further reduce the number and consequences of accidents. We are guided by the 'VISION ZERO' safety strategy. The introduction of active and passive safety systems has already contributed to a significant reduction in accidents in the past and will continue to make an important contribution to increasing safety on our roads in the future." red