Sentences with phrase «prevent passenger vehicle»

The ATA is lobbying hard in hopes that legislators will not approve «The Roya, AnnaLeah & Mary Comprehensive Underride Protection Act of 2017» which calls for manufacturers to install side guards on trailers as well as rear guards to prevent passenger vehicle from sliding under the trailer.

Airbags are intended to prevent passenger vehicle occupants from sustaining severe injuries in car accidents.

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In the affected vehicles, the electronic control module for the driver and front passenger seat heaters may fail, preventing the seat heaters from being able to be turned off.

FMVSS 226, introduced in 2011, is designed to prevent vehicle passengers from being thrown from a car in side - impact or rollover crashes.

These inflate from the seat cushion, underneath the driver's and front passenger's knees, to help prevent the vehicle occupant from submarining underneath the lap portion of the seat belt.

The SUV has a rollover protection system that prevents the drivers and passengers if the vehicle overturns as well as a traction control to promote navigation through wet or icy roads.

From strong vehicle structures that reduce crash impact, to active safety technologies that help you avoid collisions altogether, our «prevent, protect, respond» philosophy helps our passengers achieve outstanding safety.

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.

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).

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).

Most of the stretch is in the middle of the vehicles to keep from positioning seats over the rear wheels to prevent ride harshness for passengers and to ensure protruding wheel wells don't block entry or exit from the back seats, said Jeanne Brooks, assistant brand manager for Envoy.

Cause: The affected vehicles have a front passenger seat belt whose buckle latch assembly may prevent the front passenger from fastening the seat belt.

«This is the first evidence that lane departure warning is working to prevent crashes of passenger vehicles on U.S. roads,» Cicchino says.

Its position between the glass and sunroof visor allow the airbag to inflate regardless of whether the roof is open or closed and Hyundai says that in testing with dummies it prevented passengers from being flung out of the vehicle when open, or serious head trauma occurring when closed, reducing live - threatening injuries to minor ones.

«That said, if every passenger vehicle on the road were equipped with blind spot detection as effective as the systems we studied, about 50,000 police - reported crashes a year could be prevented.»

That means that if all passenger vehicles had been equipped with lane departure warning, nearly 85,000 police - reported crashes and more than 55,000 injuries would have been prevented in 2015.

Automakers will be allowed to install cutoff switches for the passenger - side air bag in some vehicles, in order to prevent injury to small children in car seats.

When it comes to safety, being a Toyota, you know you're in a vehicle that's not only going to aid you in preventing a collision but will help keep you and your passengers safe if one did occur.

There's also a new feature called Safe Exit Assist, which detects vehicles overtaking from the rear when stationary and locks the back doors to prevent rear - seat passengers getting a nasty surprise.

Exit Assist, by contrast, uses radar to spot vehicles and cyclists approaching from behind as the doors are opened, using warning lights to prevent passengers from getting clipped.

These are areas in the front and rear of the vehicle designed to absorb the energy of a crash to prevent driver or passenger injuries.

On vehicles equipped with side air bags, the front passenger's seat has a side air bag cutoff system that will prevent the side air bag from deploying if a child (or a small - statured adult) is leaning into the side air bag deployment path

«If all passenger vehicles had ESC, we would prevent thousands of deaths each year.»

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Crumple zones work by managing crash energy, absorbing it within the outer parts of the vehicle, rather than being directly transferred to the occupants, while also preventing intrusion into or deformation of the passenger cabin.

«Side underride collisions are an important safety problem because they defeat crumple zones and prevent air bag deployment, both vital safety advances in improving protection of passenger vehicle occupants during crashes,» the NTSB said.

The Asbury Park Press reports that the law's proponents view the decals as a way to prevent future crashes involving teen drivers because they «help police easily identify a GDL [Graduated Driver's License] driver who must adhere to curfews and restrictions about how many other teenagers can be in the vehicle as passengers.»

With two hands on the steering wheel, and eyes on the road, you dramatically limit your driving hazards and can better prevent yourself and your passengers from a motor vehicle collision.

According to the VP of Research for the IIHS, «if every passenger vehicle on the road were equipped with blind spot detection as effective as the systems we studied, about 50,000 police - reported crashes a year could be prevented.»

In this position, a seatbelt is useless because it can not properly restrain the occupant and prevent the passenger from being ejected from the vehicle through a window.

Locking your doors will ensure that the doors stay closed to prevent you and your passengers from ejecting from the vehicle and to prevent the roof from collapsing.

Because of the stress that some people develop on longer vacations, I have developed a way to prevent people from being confined in the same vehicle day after day... We take a free day every 5 to 7 days and we recommend that the passengers switch to another vehicle with others.

The auto insurance industry estimates that if all passenger vehicles were equipped with just four sensor - based alert systems — forward collision warning, lane departure warning, blind spot detection and adaptive headlights that pivot in the direction of travel based on steering wheel movement — about 1 in 3 fatal crashes and 1 out of 5 injury crashes could be prevented or have their severity lessened.