Crash avoidance

Car safety message - BBC


Crash avoidance systems and devices help the driver — and, increasingly, help the vehicle itself — to avoid a collision. This category includes:

* The vehicle's headlamps, reflectors, and other lights and signals
* The vehicle's mirrors
* The vehicle's brakes, steering, and suspension systems

Driver assistance

A subset of crash avoidance is driver assistance systems, which help the driver to detect ordinarily-hidden obstacles and to control the vehicle. Driver assistance systems include:

* Infrared night vision systems to increase seeing distance beyond headlamp range
* Adaptive highbeam assist which automatically and continuously adapts the headlamp range to the distance of vehicles ahead or which are oncoming
* Adaptive headlamps swivels headlamps around corners
* Automatic high beams which automatically adapts the headlamp range to the distance of vehicles ahead or which are oncoming
* Reverse backup sensors, which alert drivers to difficult-to-see objects in their path when reversing
* Backup camera
* Adaptive cruise control which maintains a safe distance from the vehicle in front
* Lane departure warning systems to alert the driver of an unintended departure from the intended lane of travel
* Tire pressure monitoring systems or Deflation Detection Systems
* Traction control systems which restore traction if driven wheels begin to spin
* Electronic Stability Control, which intervenes to avert an impending loss of control
* Anti-lock braking systems
* Electronic brakeforce distribution systems
* Emergency brake assist systems
* Cornering Brake Control systems
* Precrash system
* Automated parking system

Posted in: