Sentences with phrase «many crash avoidance»

For example, Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, made a splash last month when he said his company would install autopilot in his company's electric sports cars that will help with parking, cruise control and crash avoidance.

Computer - based training that significantly improves crash avoidance skills and is proven to reduce crashes, recommended by NSC.

The strongest selling point of the Grand Touring trim is the active safety package, which includes the usual alphabet soup of crash avoidance systems — blind - spot monitoring, lane - keep assist, rear cross-traffic alert, adaptive front lighting with high - beam control, and active cruise control.

First, the recipe for roadway safety includes a number of equally important ingredients: Cars are getting safer — as crash avoidance and crash worthiness technologies improve.

Availability The 2012 Volvo S60 T6 AWD R - Design is on sale at dealerships now and comes equipped with the City Safety crash avoidance system and a stellar five - year maintenance plan that includes everything from roadside assistance to wear and tear items such as brakes and battery.

The G80 earned top scores of good in all the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's crashworthiness tests, and it got the highest score, superior, for crash avoidance and mitigation.

The 2017 Toyota 4Runner is slowly becoming one of a kind thanks to a focus on off - road capabilities and ruggedness rather than the refinement, passenger comfort and crash avoidance technologies that are prioritized in competing models.

The 2017 Toyota 4Runner is slowly becoming one of a kind thanks to a focus on off - road capabilities and ruggedness rather than the refinement, passenger comfort and crash avoidance... Read more

But there are a number of other types of advanced crash avoidance safety technology that are already available and saving lives today.

A new approach to determining a vehicle's overall 5 - star rating that will, for the first time, incorporate advanced crash avoidance technology features, along with ratings for crashworthiness and pedestrian protection.

The 2013 Cadillac SRX has also received an upgrade in safety features — there are now a host of systems available to aid in driving and crash avoidance.

The Institute greatly enhanced its crash avoidance research and testing capabilities with a major expansion in September 2015.

I almost exclusively use my back brake aside from a crash avoidance situation.

enhance safety through improved crash avoidance and protection, crash and other notification, commercial motor vehicle operations, and infrastructure - based or cooperative safety systems; or

Announced plans to update its 5 - Star Safety Ratings program and encourage automakers to produce cars with better crash protection and new crash avoidance technologies to save more lives and reduce passenger and pedestrian injuries.

Expanding its capability, crash avoidance features include camera and electronic monitoring of the blind spot and the lane lines.

With the help of our supporters in the insurance industry, we recently expanded the VRC so we can evaluate crash avoidance systems all year round.

Furthermore, while both models are offering crash avoidance features, Toyota has standardized seven key features.

That Plus reflects the many crash avoidance features that it offers.

Competitor Kia Picanto did not achieve the same performance in Euro NCAP's tests, but consumers have the option to purchase the «Advanced Driving Assistance Pack», available on all variants, to enhance its crash avoidance capabilities.

The front crash avoidance assessment was not led because the Ram 1500 does not offer an impact cautioning or crisis programmed stopping mechanism.

The smart car technology on cruise is awesome, cross traffic control is incredible, back up cam with sonar, excellent, BSD and BSD oncoming warning is spot on, forward crash avoidance works like advertised!

In addition, Ford has expanded its menu of crash avoidance and driver assistance features.

IIHS tests evaluate two aspects of safety: crashworthiness — how well a vehicle protects its occupants in a crash — and crash avoidance and mitigation — technology that can prevent a crash or lessen its severity.

Ford is also matching or exceeding the crash avoidance systems offered by Toyota and other truckmakers.

One of their major duties is also to research vehicle crash worthiness and crash avoidance systems.

This means they're the safest cars because of their crashworthiness and crash avoidance systems.

Concerned parents will also want to explore crash avoidance options.

The IIHS is focused on testing two aspects when it comes to a vehicle's safety rating: crashworthiness — which rates how well a vehicle protects the drivers and passengers in a crash and crash avoidance — which rates the technology the vehicle has to prevent a crash.

Parking assist systems are spreading faster in the fleet than front crash prevention and other crash avoidance features, indicates a new report from HLDI examining how many vehicles are equipped with various driver assistance technologies.

Varick noted that such studies urgently call for equipping all vehicles with forward - crash avoidance, blind - spot detection, night vision, lane - departure warning, adaptive front lighting and surround - view camera systems, including features such as backup cameras and sensors.

The facelifted model received the maximum «Good» rating in all crash scenarios, the top «Superior» rating for crash avoidance & mitigation, but got the lowest «Poor» mark for the headlights.

Most new vehicles don't have crash avoidance features, and it will take some time before the systems are in wide use as newer vehicles supplant older ones.

A consortium of federal and state agencies, research organizations and automakers is developing vehicle - to - vehicle and vehicle - to - infrastructure communications platforms that could take crash avoidance even further.

Front crash prevention systems with autonomous braking that can stop drivers from rear - ending another vehicle or slow them down enough to lessen the impact are making a measurable difference in insurance claims (see Status Report special issue: crash avoidance, July 3, 2012).

The Edge got an «Acceptable» rating in the small overlap front impact and a minimum «Basic» rating for crash avoidance and mitigation.

The Institute has estimated that if all vehicles were equipped with crash avoidance features, 1.9 million crashes, including 1 in 3 fatal ones, could potentially be prevented or mitigated if the systems worked perfectly (see «New estimates of benefits of crash avoidance features on passenger vehicles,» May 20, 2010).

HLDI analyses of claims data and IIHS studies of police - reported crashes indicate that several crash avoidance technologies are reducing crashes reported to insurers and police, with the biggest benefits so far for front crash prevention.

The crash avoidance features highlighted in this Status Report — forward collision avoidance, adaptive headlights and lane departure warning — are among the most common of these high - tech detection, warning and intervention devices on the market so far.

Being that we just finished driving the 2015 Chrysler 200, we found that for the same money the Chrysler 200 comes better equipped, including an optional and recommended safety package that offers lane assist and front / rear crash avoidance.

It received their highest ratings of Good in all crash tests and Superior for crash avoidance technology.

In the Institute's 2010 analysis of the potential of crash avoidance technologies, lane departure warning was one of the stars.

The crash avoidance systems studied were all offered as optional equipment.

Acura's autonomous braking system was one of several advanced crash avoidance technologies demonstrated last year on the track at the Institute's Vehicle Research Center.

Using stationary and moving targets, as well as a pedestrian rig that «walks» across a vehicle's path, researchers have begun to evaluate how some crash avoidance features perform.

Earlier research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimated that if every vehicle on the road were equipped with four types of crash avoidance features — forward collision warning, lane departure warning, blind spot detection and adaptive headlights — nearly a third of all crashes could potentially be prevented or mitigated (see «New estimates of benefits of crash avoidance features on passenger vehicles,» May 20, 2010).

Claim severity for collision losses increased with most of the crash avoidance features.

The crash avoidance systems employ a high - resolution camera mounted on the windshield to determine if the driver is too close to vehicles ahead.

HLDI first reported on reductions in claim rates for Volvo's low - speed autobrake system, City Safety, in 2011 and began noting benefits for higher - speed systems in 2012 (see «Volvo's City Safety prevents low - speed crashes and cuts insurance costs,» July 19, 2011, and Status Report special issue: crash avoidance, July 3, 2012).

The X6 M hasn't been crash tested, though the mechanically identical X5 M scores 5 out of 5 stars from the NHTSA and best possible ratings of Good from the IIHS with Superior crash avoidance and mitigation ratings.