Traction Control: ABS Evolved
What is Traction Control? If you’ve ever been in a car that skidded out during heavy acceleration, it probably wasn’t equipped with a functioning ...
Monitoring Your Tire Pressure
How Does TPMS Work and Why Do You Need It? What is a Tire Pressure Monitoring System? Tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) continuously check the ...
Seat Belts What They Do and How to Use Them
The first precursor to the modern seat belt was invented in the late 1800s, but the first automobiles lacked any kind of safety restraints. In ...
What is Automotive Night Vision?
The term “automotive night vision” refers to a number of systems that help increase driver awareness when it’s dark out. These systems extend the perception ...
What Are Lane Departure Warning Systems?
Lane departure warning systems are a group of safety technologies that that are primarily designed to prevent high speed accidents on highways and freeways. There ...
What is Electronic Stability Control?
ESC Prevents Accidents and Cuts Insurance Rates If you’ve been driving for any length of time, you probably know what it feels like to lose ...
Back Up Sensors and Rear View Cameras
Better Than a Blind Spot Mirror Backing up, reversing into parking spaces, and parallel parking may not result in as many deaths and serious injuries ...
What is an Automatic Braking System?
Automatic braking technologies combine sensors and brake controls to help prevent high speed collisions. Some automatic braking systems can prevent collisions altogether, but most of ...
Automatic Parking Systems
Parallel Parking Has Never Been Easier What is Automatic Parking? There are a number of automatic parking systems, and they are designed to perform a ...
Advanced Automatic Collision Notification
Calling for Help when You Can’t Automatic collision notification (ACN) refers to a number of different OEM systems that are capable of calling for help ...
Car Safety 101: Anti-Lock Brakes
What are Anti-Lock Brakes? If you’ve ever noticed a slight pulsation in your brake pedal on a rainy day, you may have felt your anti-lock ...
What Are Airbags?
Airbags are passive restraints that activate when a vehicle gets into an accident. Unlike traditional seat belts, which only work if the driver or passenger ...
What are Adaptive Headlights?
There are a number of different adaptive headlight technologies, but they are all designed to improve the driver’s sight distance at night. Most adaptive headlight ...
Adaptive Cruise Control: How It Works and Why You Need It
The Next Best Thing to Autopilot For Cars Adaptive cruise control, also called autonomous cruise control and radar cruise control, is the next evolution in ...
Car Safety Features
Essential Car Safety Features and Emerging Technologies The evolution of car safety technology is a fascinating progression that has been driven by a number of ...
Test Driving Car Safety Technology
Safety technology isn’t flashy, exciting or entertaining, so it’s easy to forget about when you start looking for a new car. In fact, it’s pretty ...
Car Safety Technology for Kids
Most car safety technologiesdon’t care how old you are, or how big or small you are, or anything else about you, really. They either work, ...
Rollover Accidents and Technology
Preventing and Mitigating Rollovers with Technology Rollover accidents, which literally involve a vehicle rolling over on its side or roof, sometimes multiple times before finally ...
What Are Rollover Airbags?
Side Impact Airbags and Beyond Airbags have come a long way in the last few decades. The basic technology has remained relatively unchanged, but airbag ...