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Safety Features

Learn about important safety features

Active Safety Features

Active safety features can help to prevent or reduce the severity of a crash.

Auto Emergency Braking - Interurban

AEB is technology designed to apply your car’s brakes when you can’t to help avoid or reduce the severity of a crash in higher speed zones (30-80 km/h).

Electronic Stability Control

ESC is an automatic feature that becomes active if you lose control of your car.

Lane Keep Assist

Lane keeping technologies are designed to prevent you from leaving your lane of travel.

Driver Attention Detection

Driver Attention Detection, sometimes known as fatigue detection warns drivers if signs of drowsiness are detected.

Crash Protection for Adults

The structure of a car and its passive safety features can help to protect adult occupants in a crash.

Auto Emergency Braking - City

AEB is technology designed to apply your car’s brakes when you can’t to help avoid or reduce the severity of a crash at low speeds (10-50 km/h)

Side Curtain Airbags Front Row

Side Curtain Airbags are designed to protect you and your passengers from head injuries during a crash.

Front Airbag Driver

Airbag in the front drivers side to prevent the driver from striking other parts of the vehicle in the event of a crash.

Front Airbag Passenger

Front airbag in the passenger side to prevent the occupant from striking other parts of the car in the event of a crash.

Crash Protection for Other Road Users

The design of a car and its safety features can help reduce the severity of or even avoid a crash with others, including vulnerable road users.

Reversing Camera

Reversing Camera technology is used to provide you with visibility behind your vehicle.

Vulnerable Road User Auto Emergency Braking

AEB technology designed to apply your car’s brakes when you can’t to help avoid or reduce the severity of a crash with pedestrians and cyclists.

Blind Spot Warning

Detects vehicles you can't see that are next to or behind your car and warns you when they are in your blind spots.

Crash Protection for Kids

The structure and safety features of a car can help protect a child in a crash.

Side Curtain Airbags Second Row

Side Curtain Airbags are designed to protect you and your passengers from head injuries during a crash.

What are the Recommended Safety Features?

These safety features are recommended, as each has been shown to help improve the likelihood of surviving a crash or avoiding it in the first place. The more of these features a vehicle has the safer the vehicle is.

  • Low Speed Auto Emergency Braking
  • High Speed Auto Emergency Braking
  • Vulnerable Road User Auto Emergency Braking
  • Lane Keep Assist
  • Reversing Camera
  • Side Curtain Airbags Front Row
  • Side Curtain Airbags Second Row
  • Electronic Stability Control
  • Front Airbag Driver
  • Front Airbag Passenger