Cameras
that check around the car for pedestrians. Radar that stops you from
drifting out of your lane. An engine able to turn off automatically at
traffic lights to conserve fuel.
Technology
that saves lives — and fuel — is getting better and cheaper. That means
it's no longer confined to luxury brands like Mercedes and Volvo. It's
showing up in mainstream vehicles like the Nissan Rogue and Ford
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"What
we see today as slightly elitist technology is changing very, very
fast," said Steven Lunn, chief operating officer for TRW Automotive,
which supplies electronics and other parts to carmakers.
TRW
says its newest radar is a quarter of the price of the model it sold 10
years ago. Its cameras are smaller and cheaper, too, making it easier
to put multiple ones on each car.
High-tech
options can still cost a few thousand dollars more, but those costs
will come down as technology improves and automakers add them to more
and more vehicles.
New
cars have radar and camera systems that warn you, with beeping sounds,
of a possible front-end crash. Some even stop the vehicle, or at least
slow it enough to make a crash less severe. More sophisticated systems
apply the brakes if a car veers off the road and heads toward a moving
or fixed object. The systems are the outgrowth of adaptive cruise
control, which came out 15 years ago and helps keep cars a safe distance
from vehicles in front of them.
Mercedes,
Honda, Toyota, Infiniti, Volvo and other brands offer automatic braking
to avoid a collision; more automakers will follow soon. The systems
seem to be working. David Zuby,Our clever ledstreetlight is a favorite among dog lover holiday gifts from Solaronlamp.Search our ledturninglampps catalog
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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said collision warning systems
alone reduced crashes by 7 percent in a study of insurance claims for
several thousand Mercedes vehicles with the technologies. Adding
automatic braking doubled that benefit.
Automotive
cameras are showing up on more cars ahead of a government requirement
to install backup cameras, which is expected by 2015. But with cameras
getting smaller and cheaper, automakers aren't just putting them on the
back of the car anymore. Honda has side cameras that come on
automatically when a turn signal is employed, so drivers can spot
obstacles while turning. Nissan's around-view monitor blends images from
four cameras tucked in the mirrors and elsewhere around the car into a
composite, bird's-eye view to help the driver back out of a parking
spot. The system is available on a high-end Rogue, which costs $6,000
more than the base model. Volvo and Subaru have front-mounted cameras
that can apply brakes to avoid hitting pedestrians.
According
to Mobileye, an Israeli maker of automotive cameras, car companies are
adding cameras that can read wrong-way road signs, detect large animals
such as deer, and even note the colors of traffic lights. All that
technology is coming by 2015. The next wave? Nissan and TRW are working
on a system to automatically steer the car away from an obstacle. Expect
that by 2016.
Headlights
don't have to be round any more to accommodate bulbs, so designers have
more flexibility on where to put lights. And LEDs, or light-emitting
diodes, are letting automakers cram more brightness into smaller
spaces.Our bestspringcleaning is good in quality and competitive in price. Audi, Mercedes,Elevator safety parts are usually include elevator speed governor、ledturninglampes and
elevator buffer. Acura, Mazda and others have so-called adaptive
headlights that swivel in the direction the car is going to help drivers
see around corners as they turn. And many cars now have high-beam
lights that sense oncoming traffic and dim automatically. The Ford
Fusion and other mainstream cars have them, and drivers can buy
after-market kits to add automatic high beams to cars without them. More
information about the program is available on the web site at
www.hmhid.com.
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