What safety feautures is your vehicle equipped with?

by Breezey Breezey Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:19 am

Top 10 Safety Features

Automakers constantly strive to improve or add safety features to
their cars each year, aiming for four-or-five star crash-test ratings
(and thus more auto sales). Here are a few we like:

Cargo Nets. If you've got an open trunk
space (mini-van, station wagon, SUV) then use this to prevent all your
junk from flying into you during an accident (or during the avoidance of
one).
Airbags Galore. Side-impact airbags
that protect the body are mostly standard these days, but now there's an
added feature: they can sense the passengers' height, weight, and
position (such as leaning forward to the glove box) as well as speed,
and adjust their impact accordingly.
Side curtain airbags
(aka head curtain) guard your head, and should also be an important
part of your airbag checklist.
Stabilize Yourself. A Stability Control
system's sensors can tell which way the car's driver is headed vs.
which way the car's actually going. A sister system is the Rollover
Prevention System (variously known by different names) which brakes your
car if you're in danger of rolling.
A Sensitive Touch. A parents' worst
nightmare is a toddler who learns how to open a door and runs out behind
a backing-up car. Two things can help: sensors in the back, which beep
when you're close to an object (also helps for tight parking spots) and
a rearview camera. A rearview camera actually gives you a picture of
what's behind you, so there's no question of whether that's a bike or
your baby. Oh, yeah, and these help with parking, too.
Tire-pressure Monitoring. A
well-filled tire is one of the most basic, most important, and most
overlooked safety feature there is, so most new cars now come with this
feature. Some cars chirp at you or have a lighted symbol when
pressure's low; whatever the method, get thee to a filling station and
add air.
Wake Me Up―Before You Crash. Changing
lanes without checking your blind spots and sleepy driving are two major
accident-causers. When you turn on your signal, some cars "look" in
your blind spot for you and warn you if there's something there. By the
same token, if you have a little lane drift WITHOUT turning on your
signal, the lane-departure warning will sound an alarm.
Stop Me. We all use cruise control on
long trips, but sometimes it's hard to remember to turn it off (or to
do it in time) if traffic suddenly slows. Adaptive Cruise Control
brakes for you; if you think everything's okay, you just tap the brake
yourself. Emergency Brake Assist is a similar system, which recognizes a
panic stop and helps you out.
Night Vision Assist. Though this
sounds like something a soldier would have more than your car, night
vision assist (aka adaptive headlights) has cropped up. This cool
technology shows you a picture of that thing standing in the middle of
the road at night. The system can also adjust how long the light beams
are and know if there's extra light around, putting more or less light
on the subject as needed.
Emergency Response. This system calls
for help when you can't. It also does stuff like unlocks the doors,
switches off the fuel, and disconnects the battery when the airbags go
off.
Buy the Safest Car You Can. You've got
three kids and a couple of their friends and you can't fit into a sedan,
so you're thinking about getting an SUV. Do you really need one? Are
you going off-roading this weekend, or is your off-roading confined to
toting the kids to the soccer field? SUVs are big and high and lots of
people like them, but the fact remains they tend to roll over a lot more
than the other family stand-bys, the mini-van and the station wagon.
Plus, they get worse gas mileage. Just something to think about.

Does your vehicle have any of these? Do you have any that aren't listed?

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by Guest Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:13 pm

We have an older Mini Van
The best saftey device we have is a safe driver .
Bri is VERY VERY road safe

by Breezey Breezey Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:32 am

The car I just bought has air bags, seat belts and somehow has it set to lock all the doors when the car is moving.... although... it doesn't seem to work on a regular basis and keeps insisting a door is not closed tight. lol

by hoaloha Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:18 pm

I have just the basics, front air bags, anti lock brakes,roll bar, seat belts, 4 way flashers, horn.

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