Tire blockers made with high - strength steel are employed in the case of an accident to dissuade the tires from entering the cabin as well, not to mention that there are the usual airbags, including an advanced multi-stage front
driver airbag too.
Not exact matches
Certain Takata
airbags can explode with
too much force, spraying shrapnel toward a car's
driver or passenger and injuring them.
On top of high passive safety levels — thanks in part to a passenger cell made from high - and ultra-high strength steels — active safety features include the Automatic Post-Collision Braking system, which automatically applies the vehicle brakes after an accident to reduce the chances of a second impact; the pre-crash system, which tensions seatbelts and closes windows and the sunroof if an accident is likely to improve the effectiveness of the
airbags; Front Assist, which warns the
driver in the event of coming
too close to the vehicle in front, can prime the brakes, and operates at speeds of up to 99 mph; City Emergency Braking, which can automatically brake the vehicle at speeds below 18 mph; Automatic Distance Control, a radar - operated cruise control that maintains a set distance from the vehicle in front; and seven
airbags as standard, including one for the
driver's knees.
It's a safe car,
too, with a five - star crash - test rating from Euro NCAP thanks to standard kit that includes seven
airbags and a host of
driver assistance aids, including autonomous emergency braking, which continuously monitors the road ahead for obstacles and can brake to help avoid or mitigate a collision.
Too often, passive safety gets overlooked as an asset; in response, Jeep proudly points out its front and rear crumple zones and multi-stage
airbags, including a
driver - side knee blocker
airbag.
The GLA comes with
airbags everywhere you'd expect as well as a
driver's knee
airbag too.
«The optional curtain
airbag did a good job of reducing the injury measures recorded on the dummies» heads, but the torso injury measures for the
driver dummy were
too high and there was
too much intrusion,» O'Neill points out.
Safety systems include a new
driver knee
airbag, rear - view camera, lane - departure warning, forward - collision alert, blind - spot alert, rear cross-traffic alert and lane - change assist, which warns when traffic to the rear is approaching
too quickly to safely change lanes.
As for safety, every Escape includes all the
airbags, traction control, stability control, roll stability control, curve control and now its new torque vectoring control, the latter an electronic system that activates when a
driver enters a curve
too fast.
That means a strong safety cage that resists intrusion, safety belts that prevent a
driver from pitching
too far forward and side curtain
airbags that provide enough forward coverage to cushion a head at risk of hitting the dashboard or window frame.
«That means a strong occupant compartment that resists the kinds of intrusion we see in a frontal crash like this, safety belts that prevent a
driver from pitching
too far forward and side curtain
airbags to cushion a head at risk of hitting the dashboard or window frame.»
It score the full five stars in its most recent NHTSA crash test, for example, and a full complement of front, side and curtain
airbags are standard on all versions pm top of
driver assists like trailer sway assist and a stability control setup that can automatically start slowing the car down if it detects the Ford Explorer is going
too quickly around a corner.
The sad thing is that Hyundai India doesn't offer 6
airbags anymore and the Elite i20 now comes with only dual front
airbags, that
too on the Asta variant, while only Sportz and Sportz (O) get
driver side
airbag.
Missing internal
airbag tethers that prevent the
airbag from inflating
too close to the
driver or passenger, which could lead to their injury