Ford has released ‘real world’ footage of its Electronic Brake Light technology in action in Germany. The early warning technology allows cars to essentially talk to each other, allowing a car to alert following cars that it is braking – even if the following cars are around a bend or in traffic. The Electronic...
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Volvo’s aim to eliminate serious injury or death in people travelling in its cars by 2020 is moving closer with the car manufacturer claiming current models are 50 per cent safer than those released in the year 2000. Volvo Car Corporation based the claim on its own research as well as ‘several independent crash...
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Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to install inflatable seat belts in a luxury-class model. The Beltbag was originally mooted in the ESF 2009 Experimental Safety Vehicle, and is aimed at reducing injury to rear seat passengers in the event of a head-on collision. It does this by reducing the strain on the ribcage. It is...
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Ford’s inflatable rear seatbelt, which combines an airbag with a conventional seatbelt, will make its European debut in the new Mondeo. The inflatable seatbelt is designed to reduce head, neck and chest injuries for rear-seat passengers. In an accident, the belt rapidly expands across a body area five times greater than that achieved by...
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Volvo has successfully completed the first-ever test drive of a road train among other road users. Road trains, or platoons, are made up of a number of vehicles that automatically monitor the distance, speed and direction of the car immediately in front and mimic its actions. Volvo’s test, carried out on 200km of motorway...
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Admit it, we’ve all been there – your phone pings while you’re driving and you’re just itching to pick it up to check the text message. In fact, 48 per cent of drivers across Europe have confessed to giving in to this urge. Now Ford aims to put an end to end to this...
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