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It’s easy to feel very safe in a modern vehicle. After all, passive safety has never been better in modern vehicles (passive safety refers to elements that protect you when an accident occurs), and active safety technologies are becoming more and more advanced every day (active safety refers to driver assistance technologies that can prevent an accident from occurring). Nevertheless, there are plenty of other quick precautions that are easy to follow and that will ...

Modern cars are safer than ever. New materials make for stiffer structures, and there are now more airbags than ever in modern vehicles not to mention more impact zones and smarter engineering. No question, you are very well protected in the event of an accident, but now modern cars offer something more: active safety systems which help prevent an accident from ever occurring. “Active safety systems are designed to monitor the road and make sure ...

There are many different types of ways your vehicle can protect you in the event of an accident. But did you know that there are also ways your vehicle can prevent an accident from even occurring? The technologies that prevent accidents are called active safety systems. Those that protect you when there is an accident are called passive safety systems. In both cases, they have never been so evolved.   “Cars are stronger than ever ...