Let's take a look at car safety, dividing the topic into the areas of "preventative safety", "collision safety" and the "Pre-crash Safety System."
Preventive safety uses technology that makes it easier to avoid accidents.
Preventive safety starts with a car that helps the driver keep the car stable and drive in a way that prevents accidents.
Sometimes a car’s wheels spin when it tries to start or accelerate on snowy or otherwise slippery roads. TRC helps the car start moving forward by keeping the wheels from spinning.
ABS prevents the wheels from locking when braking, and gives the driver better control of the steering wheel, making safe stopping easier.
VSC stabilizes the car and prevents it from sliding sideways when going around curves.
This system controls the ABS, VSC, TRC, and other systems to keep the car even more stable, kicking in even before the car starts to slip or slide on wet or snowy roads.
When the car’s brake pedal is pressed suddenly, the Brake Assist amplifies the braking power and applies it promptly, making stopping easier.
When driving around curves at nighttime, Intelligent AFS automatically directs light on the road 3-seconds ahead of the car, making it easier to see.
The Night View system uses infrared cameras to detect things that can be hard to see at night such as pedestrians, obstacles, and the road condition, and displays them on a screen to alert the driver. It includes a function that highlights pedestrians with a yellow box to make them more visible.
Night View is displayed on the instrument panel!
This system uses cameras and makes a beeping sound to alert the driver when the car is close to driving over the white (or yellow) line between lanes on highways. It also uses corrective steering to help make driving between the white lines easier.
Hybrid and electric vehicles can move so quietly that they pose a worry to pedestrians and cyclists who might not hear them approaching.
This safety system emits a sound resembling a motor, and by doing so helps communication between humans and cars, allowing them to be aware of each other and get around safely.
