EPO – European Inventor Award 2016 – Lifetime achievement winner: interview
Lifetime achievement
Anton van Zanten (Germany/Netherlands)
Engineer Anton van Zanten was honoured for his landmark contributions to automotive safety systems that have saved thousands of lives and are now mandatory features in new automobiles. Throughout an automotive engineering career with German company Robert Bosch spanning more than 40 years, van Zanten pioneered the electronic stability control (ESC) system and other solutions to prevent automobiles from veering off the road and crashing in extreme braking situations.