ROME (ITALPRESS) – Mercedes-Benz Italia has entered into a two-year partnership with the ACI Safe Driving Centers. An agreement that stems from a sharing of values such as safety, sustainability and the importance of creating a system in a delicate phase of transition, which sees the automotive industry as the protagonist of the greatest transformation in its history. For the next two years, the ACI Safe Driving Centers in Rome (Vallelunga) and Milan (Lainate) will be an important point of reference in the enhancement of Mercedes-Benz products and strategies in Italy. In fact, the partnership will guarantee a multipurpose platform for the development of activities in various sectors. From the commitment in the field of safety and sustainability, values that have always united Mercedes-Benz Italia and the Automobile Club of Italy, to Driving Performance on board the range signed by Mercedes-AMG. “The agreement with the ACI Safe Driving Centers is much more than a simple partnership”, said Radek Jelinek, President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Italy. “It is an important signal of the need to create a system and create value for a sector as important as the automotive sector in our country. At the same time, it represents for us the opportunity to be able to count on the support and logistics of structures of excellence, with two hubs strategically distributed throughout the territory. All this will allow us to field numerous activities, with a reliable partner of great value at our side “. “The ACI Safe Driving Centers are a European excellence in research, development and training for an ever higher level of road safety”, declared Angelo Sticchi Damiani, President of the Automobile Club of Italy. “Safety on the roads for everyone, starting from the most vulnerable such as pedestrians and cyclists, is in fact the first objective of ACI. We are pleased that Mercedes Benz, a leading manufacturer in safety technologies, shares this mission with us and certain that their contribution will further increase the capacities of the Centers and the spread of the culture of safety. ” The technological increase on vehicles has contributed considerably to safety while the human factor continues to be the weak link “, declared Carlo Alessi, President of ACI Vallelunga SpA” To encourage safety, the first can be equipped with active safety systems. , but it is equally necessary that man knows how to manage them by equipping himself with the necessary skills to react in the right way in the face of unexpected events. Having Mercedes by our side is not only a reason for pride and prestige but it is more, it means having a partner of excellence next to us who has always believed in safety by making man and vehicle dialogue to optimize the potential of both ” . ACI Vallelunga SpA, a company of the Automobile Club of Italy, represents a unique reality of its kind: the company, which started from the management of the Vallelunga racetrack, today managed the multifunctional pole of Vallelunga on the outskirts of Rome, and from 2015 the Polo di Lainate on the outskirts of Milan. The project of the Automobile Club d’Italia is to develop multi-functional motor and safe driving systems throughout the national territory. These systems contribute to the enhancement of the territory through the promotion of sporting activities, Automotive, road safety and tourism ACI Vallelunga organizes Safe Driving Courses ACI SARA to all those who have a license to drive cars, motorcycles, scooters, min icars, off-road vehicles, industrial vehicles, campers, vans, buses and those who use these vehicles for work or for pleasure, with particular attention to newly licensed who represent 20% of the users of the center and to whom large discounts are applied. The courses, lasting one day (8 hours), in addition to classroom training, include multiple practical driving exercises that are carried out on suitable and specially equipped areas that allow the course to be carried out even with the customer’s private vehicle: always in the compliance with the Highway Code and with the utmost safety for the users who participate. The centers are equipped with exercise areas identical to the road infrastructures (eg width, carriageway, curves, hairpin bends, climbs and descents, etc.). As part of the promotional initiatives, the ACI-SARA Safe Driving Centers reserve Mercedes private customers who purchase a new Mercedes-Benz or smart car, the opportunity to purchase safe driving courses reserved for individuals at a discounted price of 30 %. ACI intends to create through ACI Vallelunga a network of Safe Driving Centers throughout the national territory to allow easy use of the same by citizens, obviously all with the same infrastructural standards and teaching methodology. To date, 2 Centers are operational: that of Rome Vallelunga and Milan Lainate. For the future, 2 further Safe Driving Centers are planned, one at Binetto in the province of Bari and another in Sicily. (ITALPRESS). sat / com 31-May-21 12:17 pm
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