Mercedes Turns To QR Codes To Help First Responders

For most of us, QR codes are just a quick way of getting extra details from an advertisement or transferring clients from a business card to a website. They're useful, but hardly life-changing. Those fitted to the latest Mercedes-Benz models--and now able to be retrofitted to the last few decades of Mercedes and Smart cars--could very well be life-changing. The German automaker has taken on the initiative of fitting QR codes to vehicles as a way of allowing first responders at accidents to analyze details of the very car they're responding to.