The article highlights how side guards on trucks can
keep pedestrians and cyclists from falling under the wheels of trucks, preventing fatal injuries.
Not exact matches
This car will steer you back into your lane if it spots something in your blind spot you haven't noticed, the standard City Safety package has been beefed up to give you enhanced steering input if you swerve to avoid
pedestrians,
cyclists or large animals,
and pilot assist that will accelerate, brake
and steer for you at speeds up to 80mph (although you're still the boss
and have to
keep your hands on the wheel).
With Volvo being a safety - oriented brand, the XC60 features an array of assistance systems as standard, including Lane
Keeping Aid
and the Intellisafe City Safety system which detects
pedestrians,
cyclists, vehicles,
and large animals
and can apply automatic emergency braking when needed.
The XC40 is the first to be based on the company's new CMA architecture
and gets a host of tech
and driver assist features like Pilot Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, City Safety with
pedestrian,
cyclist and large animal detection, Oncoming lane mitigation, Driver Alerts
and Lane
Keeping Aid.
Low speed collision avoidance,
pedestrian and cyclist detection, pilot assist semi-autonomous driving,
and lane
keep assist are all standard.
The XC90 is designed to
keep other road users safe, too, with
pedestrian and cyclist detection to help avoid collisions.
It came with Volvo's City Safety Collision Avoidance System with
Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection
and Avoidance, lane departure warning
and lane
keeping aid, a road sign information system that displays speed limits in the instrument cluster, driver alert control to watch for drowsy driving, adaptive headlights, blind spot detection
and cross traffic alert, automated parking,
and adaptive cruise control with full stop
and go.
While many would shy away from biking after such a horrific experience, Mary Beth has become an outspoken advocate of
pedestrian and cyclist rights: «When he died in such a sad
and unnecessary way, I wanted to channel
and transform my anger, my pain
and my loss into something forward looking
and in
keeping with the things we loved.
Kohn thinks we should
keep the Gardiner for
pedestrians,
cyclists and perhaps street cars,
and let the cars fend for themselves below.
Cycling advocates emphasize that all people riding bicycles must follow the same traffic laws as cars (stopping at red lights
and stop signs, yielding, etc.),
and that doing so will
keep everyone — motorists
and cyclists and even
pedestrians — safer.