Have you been drinking and driving? Or perhaps chatting on
your mobile while driving? If you are a little careless while you drive and are
prone to having a bump here and there you are better off getting your hands on
a new set of wheels with active safety technologies. Car manufacturerssuch
as Mercedes are incorporating space age technology into their cars to save
lives or rather save us from crashing our buggies when we are simply too
careless with our own lives. This might sound science fiction to you but these
are some of the technologies Mercedes’s latest S Class has:
Auto cruise control warns you if you are getting too close
to the car in front and if you don’t react it applies brakes on its own to
maintain a safe driving distance.
Traction control sense when you steer too sharply or lose
traction in the wet and cuts engine power and limits the power individually to
each wheel to bring you back on track.
Anti Lock Braking System, this has been around for quite
some time now. ABS helps in achieving best possible braking performance, it
prevent jamming of the wheel which results in skids and loss of vehicle
control. The computer senses when the wheels are about to lock and releases the
brakes momentarily and then applies them again.
Airbags, as many as 8 airbags protect you in the unlikely
event of a crash. Airbags exist for all passengers and are inflated in
milliseconds when the care ‘senses’ a crash. Airbags can protect the occupant
even at 100mph crashes.
Space Age Safety Technology
Now this is the most impressive of them all, the Mercedes S
Class sense when the Car is going to meet with a crash using
it 360 degree radar and braces for impact. It rolls up windows if they are
down, inflates the seat cushions to protect occupants and lowers the steering
to save the driver from chest injuries and lowers pedals to prevent foot
injuries.
Now that’s some technology, all to save our lives when we
loose control. Maybe if Diana was riding this S Class she would have been
amongst us. So lets not crash it, for if you do the car will save you but
repairing the high tech car will burn your pockets for technology doesn’t come
cheap. The fully loaded Mercedes S500 with all the safety features retails at
over $1,25,000!
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