Sentences with phrase «sometimes emergency brakes»

Not all car accidents happen when you're inside the car — sometimes emergency brakes can fail, and then cars can roll and smash into something, causing property damage or injury.

Not exact matches

Sometimes an emergency stop is vital, but repeated heavy braking will wear your tyres out, fast.

«The ABS is calibrated well, but doesn't allow our snow tires enough slippage for the best possible braking distances — so I did sometimes have to yank the emergency brake to lock all four wheels and stop more quickly.

Additionally, there might be an anomaly with the emergency autonomous braking system — it sometimes fails to warn of a possible frontal collision, but it may be just me.

Autonomous emergency braking is a potential lifesaver, while the extremely vigilant lane departure alerts are appreciated if sometimes a little over-zealous (I had to turn them off going along a narrow, windy country road).

Typically, cars with ACC also have forward collision warning if you get too close, and sometimes that latter system invokes automatic emergency braking.

Also, Kia generously offers an optional emergency automatic braking system — a valuable and sometimes hard - to - find safety feature — on all but the base FE model.