We are in a new era of car safety. The focus has shifted from reducing death and injury in a vehicle
collision to preventing a crash from happening in the first place.
As what was once
cutting-edge technology becomes standard, researchers are developing more
devices to keep drivers safe and help prevent car crashes.
Here is an overview of the
advanced safety features you're likely to encounter when shopping for a new car.
1. Emergency Brake Assist
Brake assist is an active
vehicle safety feature designed to help drivers come to a stop more quickly
during an episode of emergency braking.
If the vehicle senses an
imminent collision, the system will automatically apply the brakes to avoid or
minimize an impact.
Studies have shown that most
drivers do not press the brake fast enough or hard enough to make full use of
their vehicle’s braking power. So, Brake assist is designed to recognize the
tell-tale signs of emergency braking and provide drivers with extra brake
support.
Brake assist usually works in
combination with anti-lock braking systems (ABS) to enables threshold braking
without locking up the wheels.
2. Foward Collision Warning
If you come up behind a
slower or stopped vehicle and don't show signs of braking, the forward
collision warning system will alert you that an impact is imminent.
Forward-collision warning
uses cameras, radar or laser to scan for cars ahead and alert the driver if
they are approaching a vehicle in their lane too fast.
Most systems alert the
driver with some sort of visual and or audible signal to a potential crash,
allowing time for you to react.
3. Adaptive Cruise Control
Adaptive cruise control is
one of those features where once you experience it, you never want to go back.
Adaptive cruise control lets
the driver set a travelling speed and automatically maintain a constant
distance from the car ahead. When the car ahead gets closer, your car slows
down on its own. When the car ahead speeds up, so do you.
Adaptive cruise control
systems rely on radar sensors built into the front of the car. Thus, it keep a
constant distance between you and the car ahead, automatically maintaining a
safe following distance.
4. Blind – Spot Monitoring
Even the most fastidious
driver can have the occasional near-miss accident when changing lanes by not
seeing another car in their blind spot.
Using radar or cameras, this
system illuminates a light or icon in or adjacent to the outside mirrors to
warn that another vehicle is lurking in the lane beside, possibly hidden in
your car's blind spot.
If the driver somehow
doesn’t see the visual notification and signals a lane change regardless, a
beeping audio alert warns them of the danger.
5. Lane Departure Warning
Lane-keeping assist is a
step up from lane-departure warning (different companies use different names
for their features), which uses cameras to keep track of the lines on the road
and warns you – by emitting a beep, or vibrating the seat or steering wheel –
when you’ve crossed them without putting your signals on.
While collision avoidance technology has so far proved capable of dramatically reducing the number and
severity of crashes, it is far from perfect. Even state-of-the-art automatic
emergency braking or lane-keeping systems are intended as a backup, a last line
of defence for when a driver makes a mistake.
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