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Trust in Technology. 

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Unimog customer training with the Stuttgart fire brigade at the test site in Ötigheim

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The off-road test site in Ötigheim.
Here today: Stuttgart's fire service

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with its newly equipped
tactical Unimog unit:

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35 firefighters,
new Unimog equipment vehicles, pump water tenders

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and plenty of action.

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We are here today at the driver training
for the operators

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of the new vehicles – to simply
experience

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the handling
and, above all, if you ask me,

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ultimately gaining confidence
in the technology.

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What is the vehicle capable of?

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But also learning where the
technological limits are

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to then be able to react
correctly and in the right way

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when you're out
responding to emergencies throughout Stuttgart.

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These are vehicles that
are part of our voluntary fire service

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fleet.
And the drivers

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handling these vehicles in emergencies
are trained accordingly here,

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to also push the vehicles
to their limits.

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This involves going uphill, downhill,
forwards, backwards, fording.

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And then situations
in which all differentials

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have to be engaged,
regardless of whether its the interaxle or transverse locks.

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Yes, I have experienced it myself
when I was at the wheel

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and then got the instruction
to complete the course

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here with gradients of up to 80 percent.

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It goes without saying that this was very impressive,
when you are heading down the hill

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and suddenly
you basically just see the ground

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and can't really see what's further afield.
That’s a strange feeling.

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But confidence in the technology
is what I gained in the process.

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That's something I experienced
first hand today.

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You have to be extremely focused
but let me think hard about how to put this:

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I think everyone was delighted today
to also experience such a training course

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as fire officers in this way.