The Euro NCAP Advanced Reward for advanced safety technology goes to Opel. Car makers that make available new safety technologies, which demonstrate a scientifically proven safety benefit for consumers and society, are eligible for this award. The engineers in Rüsselsheim developed the Side Blind Spot Alert to warn drivers from hidden dangers. When changing lanes, overtaking […]
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Toyota has revealed some of the new technologies and systems it will be featuring in future models to make driving safer. True to the company’s Integrated Safety Management Concept, these have been designed from the start to work together to help cut the number of road accidents. The new features, announced at a safety seminar
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Lexus is 25 this year. So we have looked for 25 Lexus world firsts. Here they are: The Lexus LS 600h was the world’s first full hybrid V8 at launch in 2010. A ‘Climate Concierge’ system is fitted to the current-generation LS 600h. It is a world-first climate control system which uses infra-red sensors to monitor
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Honda Motor today announced a new driver-assistive system, Honda SENSING, which will first be equipped to the all-new Legend that plans to go on sale in Japan before the end of this year, and then successively to more models in the future. Honda SENSING was developed as another step toward the realization of a collision-free
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Severe rear-end collisions happen almost daily. In the last four years, there has been an increase in the number of traffic casualties caused by a failure to maintain a safe distance. In 2010, according to a report from the German federal statistics office, 42,017 motorists caused collisions by driving too close to the car in front
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