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There was a time when ABS and a couple of airbags was all a car needed to be considered safe. Today, however, things have changed radically: not only have Euro NCAP and NHTSA crash tests forced manufacturers to create much safer vehicles, but they’ve also resulted in the addition of not just passive, but active safety systems as well.
- Mazda Cx-5 Automatic Braking Fails During Dealer Test Drive – Injures Driver, Passenger
A dealer parking lot in Saitama, Japan was the stage for an unusual test drive crash involving a Mazda CX-5 and its two occupants. Apparently, a prospective buyer was trying out the autonomous braking system (or as Mazda calls it, Smart City Brake Support)...
- Sleepy Hollow: Passenger Cars Colliding Into Trucks
How can one possibly miss a truck on the road and smash into it? While there are many answers to that question, the most usual culprits are drivers falling asleep or being momentarily distracted – and it is under these conditions that modern safety...
- Feds Probe 2013 Infiniti Jx After Reports About Unnecessary Application Of "intelligent" Braking
The so-called intelligent brake assist system on the 2013 Infiniti JX35 crossover may not have lived up to its name in two cases, if we are to believe complaints submitted to the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). According to a filing with the...
- Mazda To Start Road Trials Of The Asv-4 Advanced Safety Vehicle
Beginning on March 11, 2008, Mazda will start public road trials of its advanced safety vehicle Mazda ASV-4 in the Hiroshima area. The prototype vehicle is equipped with a series of safety technologies that utilize vehicle-to-vehicle communications to...
- Smart Fortwo's Iihs Results
Long before the results were available, the actual crash test of a smart fortwo used by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was released on YouTube. You can check out that clip here. The results have been released for the Good 12-winning fortwo,...
Cars
Mazda CX-5 gets New Smart City Brake Support Safety System
There was a time when ABS and a couple of airbags was all a car needed to be considered safe. Today, however, things have changed radically: not only have Euro NCAP and NHTSA crash tests forced manufacturers to create much safer vehicles, but they’ve also resulted in the addition of not just passive, but active safety systems as well.
Mazda for example, had developed a new system that helps distracted drivers avoid frontal collisions at slow speeds. It's called called the Smart City Brake Support (SCBS) and it will be available in the new CX-5 compact crossover.
Read more »- Mazda Cx-5 Automatic Braking Fails During Dealer Test Drive – Injures Driver, Passenger
A dealer parking lot in Saitama, Japan was the stage for an unusual test drive crash involving a Mazda CX-5 and its two occupants. Apparently, a prospective buyer was trying out the autonomous braking system (or as Mazda calls it, Smart City Brake Support)...
- Sleepy Hollow: Passenger Cars Colliding Into Trucks
How can one possibly miss a truck on the road and smash into it? While there are many answers to that question, the most usual culprits are drivers falling asleep or being momentarily distracted – and it is under these conditions that modern safety...
- Feds Probe 2013 Infiniti Jx After Reports About Unnecessary Application Of "intelligent" Braking
The so-called intelligent brake assist system on the 2013 Infiniti JX35 crossover may not have lived up to its name in two cases, if we are to believe complaints submitted to the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). According to a filing with the...
- Mazda To Start Road Trials Of The Asv-4 Advanced Safety Vehicle
Beginning on March 11, 2008, Mazda will start public road trials of its advanced safety vehicle Mazda ASV-4 in the Hiroshima area. The prototype vehicle is equipped with a series of safety technologies that utilize vehicle-to-vehicle communications to...
- Smart Fortwo's Iihs Results
Long before the results were available, the actual crash test of a smart fortwo used by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was released on YouTube. You can check out that clip here. The results have been released for the Good 12-winning fortwo,...