6 safety feature to consider before buying your next car

If you're in the market for a new car, you've probably been exposed to a wealth of new high-tech safety features that probably aren't on your current car. Virtually every automaker offers at least some of them, and a few even include them as standard equipment. Heres 6 safety features to consider before buying your next car. Transcript: 6 safety features to consider
Before buying your next car

1. Automatic high beams
Car senses when it’s dark enough and
Automatically makes the brightest view forward.

When a car is detected ahead, the car
Automatically switches the high beams off.

2. Lane keep assist
Takes lane-departure warning to the next level.

It will subtly steer you back into the middle
Of the lane, sometimes these systems
Use subtle braking.

Performance and quality depends
On the car company.


3. Blind-spot warning
Monitors your blind spots and alerts you
To the presence of other cars.

Should you try to make a lane change
Lights will flash or the car will provide
An audible warning.

A helpful system but properly set mirrors
Often render them a bit redundant.

4. Brake assist
Detects when a driver has initiated a panic stop
And provides full anti-lock brake stopping power.

brake assist is often standard.




5. Forward collision warning
This system scans the road ahead.
For stopped vehicles and alerts the driver
Using warning lights and noises.

More advanced systems can detect
Pedestrians, cyclists, or animals.



6. Automatic emergency braking
Should the driver not heed the audio and visual
Forward collision warnings, the car can
Apply the brakes automatically.

Speeds at which the system operates depend on
The car or version of the system.

These have been proven to prevent or lessen
The severity of crashes.


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