Four of the Best Safety Features You Can Add to Your Car
We might be terrified of terrorists, ebola outbreaks, and global warming, but the biggest danger for most of us is driving. The roads are responsible for far more injuries and accidents in the UK than the other three categories combined. We should be more afraid of driving than the rest.
To minimise the dangers of driving, it’s important to ensure that our cars are safe. Below, we are going to explore four of the best safety gadgets that you can install in your car. These will help to upgrade the safety rating of your vehicle, and help to keep you safe while travelling the UK’s roads. You can buy them all as aftermarket gadgets, so it doesn’t matter if your car doesn’t come with them preinstalled, you can add them afterwards.
• GPS Vehicle-Tracking System.
An increasing number of parents are adding tracking devices to their teenagers’ cars. This isn’t so much about monitoring their whereabouts (that would be incredibly intrusive and weird), but about monitoring how they're driving. The top-of-the-range GPS trackers can tell you how fast they have been driving, and whether they did anything dangerous.
In fact, these GPS systems are so accurate and important, that certain insurance companies will now offer you a discount on your premium if you install one in your car.
• Vehicle Journey Recorders (VJRs).
A vehicle journey recorder can also be used by parents to monitor their children’s driving. It’s a bit boring, because you'll have to sit and analyse the footage, but if you want to, you can.
However, VJRs are much better as after the fact resources. What this means, is that they are good for proving liability once there has been an accident. They do not directly influence driver safety. Nonetheless, studies have shown that people drive more safely when they know the journey is being recorded.
• Front and Rear Parking Sensors.
Parking sensors can improve safety dramatically. Mostly, it’s about protecting your car from the damaged caused by hitting things you might not have seen, such as bollards; or, it’s about preventing yourself from hitting other people’s cars when parallel parking, or parking in car parks.
However, one of the most important things that front and rear parking sensors protect against is from hitting toddlers and pets. It’s actually much more common than you might expect, but is something that can relatively easily be avoided with the use of parking aids.
A word of warning, though: parking aids are exactly that: an aid. You must always exercise caution, even when using aids. Do not take them for granted.
• Collision-Avoidance System
These are a fantastic new technology to help enhance safety. They offer many features that can help you to stay safe while driving, especially when motorway driving. The best models offer you features, such as lane departure alarms, warnings of upcoming collisions, speed warnings, and distance from central reservation. The additional safety benefits of such a technology is immense. We would definitely recommend buying one.
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