Sometimes it\u2019s pretty hard keeping up with all the new doo-dads that are part of a new car\u2019s comprehensive safety equipment list.\u00a0 Some of the new names are new for the sake of being new \u2013 to disguise the fact that they are safety systems that have been around for a while \u2013 sure, over time, the old has been refined.\u00a0 However, the new safety systems that Toyota, and others, are working on are pretty cool.\u00a0 Get a load of these features.<\/p>\n
Toyota has announced that they have some vehicle safety advancements that focus on the older drivers and pedestrians.\u00a0 This is in response to the accident statistics, in Japan, that reveal that more than half of traffic deaths are of people aged 65 and over.\u00a0 Incredibly, Japanese statistics show that pedestrians account for more fatalities than vehicle occupants.<\/p>\n
As well as protecting people inside and outside the car when a crash occurs, cars like Toyota are looking at monitoring the occupant\u2019s health and helping them to avoid a crash in the first instance.<\/p>\n
Toyota\u2019s Emergency Response Technology deals with a driver who collapses at the wheel because of a heart attack or a sudden blackout.\u00a0 Obviously, this is a scenario that can cause very serious accidents.\u00a0 What the new technology does is it monitors cardiovascular functions through the driver\u2019s grip on the steering wheel.\u00a0 This can detect risk situations.\u00a0 Toyota will continue their research on this amazing technology.<\/p>\n
Pre-Crash Safety (PCS) is another biggie that Toyota is working on.\u00a0 PCS incorporates collision-avoidance technology to create a vehicle that is less likely to become involved in an accident.\u00a0 Toyota have progressed their system to the place where the system will predict when a collision is imminent and will initiate measures to reduce damage and the risk of occupant injury.\u00a0 With the use of radar and a miniature camera, the vehicle will monitor the road ahead and apply brakes if the driver doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 How effective the end result is depends on road conditions and circumstances.\u00a0 Additions to this will be a system that will help the driver steer a safe course in an emergency.\u00a0 PCS would monitor locations of roadside obstacles and approaching vehicles to analyse, and respond, to collision risks and change any action, accordingly.<\/p>\n
An Adaptive Driving Beam system has already been employed by many premium car manufacturers.\u00a0 This is a system that automatically dips the headlights when taillights are coming into view in your lane ahead of you or when the system detects an oncoming car in the opposite lane.\u00a0 Once no cars are detected ahead in either lane, the system automatically switches the headlights up to full beam again.<\/p>\n
Jaguar has employed a pop-up-bonnet system that looks to protect pedestrians who are on course for a collision with the car\u2019s front end.\u00a0 As the system detects the pedestrian ahead of the car, the rear-bonnet section rises up to create a gentler slope at the time of impact.\u00a0 This technology makes for a better impact (no impact is nice) and reduces the level of head injury for the unfortunate pedestrian. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/blog-single-tg.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes it\u2019s pretty hard keeping up with all the new doo-dads that are part of a new car\u2019s comprehensive safety equipment list.\u00a0 Some of the new names are new for the sake of being new \u2013 to disguise the fact that they are safety systems that have been around for a while \u2013 sure, over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12431,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/12431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}