Car Care

Safety drive
(25/11/2010) - Safety on the road driving is now a major priority. Therefore, engineers are competing to design a car that is able to get away from accidents and provide maximum protection, if it can not be avoided anymore.
New features with foreign-sounding names popping up. There are side airbags, curtain airbags, pretensioner, crumple zones, electronic stability program, electronic braking distribution, and many more. Only yesterday it was the owner of the car was introduced with seatbelt, front airbags and ABS.
Safety on the road depends on many factors, such as vehicle design, driver behavior, road conditions, and other driver behaviors. The ability of cars to help avoid accidents is as important as its ability to protect you in an accident.
Power to avoid a car accident affected the two main factors, namely braking system and control system / control in emergency situations. The main task is to stop the car brake system in the distance as short as possible and keep the car under control in a straight path.
In addition, the control system which controls the movement of the car is also very crucial. The more controlled and more secure a car when faced with extreme conditions, indicating the better it protects your car from an accident.
Other factors that can avoid accidents is driving position, visibility and seat comfort. The sitting position can affect visibility and comfort. The better visibility, the better the level of guard against other cars and situations around him. Leisure chair also plays an important role, because the chairs are comfortable lowering the concentration of the driver.
If an accident is unavoidable, the ability of vehicles to protect occupants become an important key. How far the car to protect passengers, depending on the design and security equipment such as safety belts, and airbags.
Each vehicle also has a crumple zone, the part which is designed to absorb crash energy in a collision with first, thus reducing the potential damage to the passenger cabin or the impact energy flowing into the passenger compartment. The better the car manage this impact energy, the smaller the chance of passengers and the driver suffered serious injuries.
Security devices so are manifold, buyers who do not know the benefits or do not know the advantages, usually pass away.
Seat belt
The device is first introduced and highly effective in reducing the risk of injury in accidents. Efficiency seatbelt airbag doubled. So, always use a seatbelt and do not rely on airbags.
But the seatbelt had a negative side as well. This tool is not safe to use the old or pregnant women, because it can cause injury to the chest. To reduce that risk, advanced seatbelt is usually equipped with additional tools such as pretensiometer da force limiter.
Pretensiometer tighten the belt when the collision occurred, and helps the body eliminate kenduran passenger / driver remained in his seat. Force limiter, which is usually found with pre-tensioners, loosen the belt shortly after the collision in order to avoid injury to the chest.
Airbag
Airbags work based sensors mounted on the bumper collision. In a certain speed limit, crash sensors will trigger to initiate chemical reactions that produce nitrogen gas. This gas very quickly, 322 kp / h, filling the air bag to inflate fully. In a short time the gas flows out through a small hole in the bag until the bag flat back. So you can move back.
The bag that quickly ballooned it to hold the swing of the body that hit the dashboard / steering wheel to reduce the risk of injury. But in some cases, airbags instead of holding the swing of the body, but instead punched the driver / passenger causing injury. This usually happens when the pace car during an impact is low.
In recent years, car manufacturers designed the new airbag system to minimize the risk of injury due to airbag letup power. Latest airbags now have two levels of development. When collisions occur at low speeds, the airbags inflate 70-80 percent of normal airbag. At high speed, airbags will go off with full contents.
A number of luxury cars also offer a system that can detect the presence of passengers, so it can disable the airbag when no passengers. Airbag deactivation can also be done via the keypad. This is done when bringing the little boy.
Carry your baby in a car that uses airbags to be careful. Because statistical data indicates a number of child deaths due to airbags. The greater the risk, if the child does not use a seatbelt. The most important thing is not putting the baby in the front seat.
Although your car using the latest generation airbags, you still need a number of precautions. Always use safety belts. Sit at least 10 inches from the steering wheel when your driver, and sit as far as possible from the dashboard when you are in the front seat passenger.
Now the rear side airbags are offered as well. Similarly, side curtain airbags use more widespread. Curtain airbags protect the head from side pillar collision. Some SUVs also offer a special sensor that can activate the side curtain airbags when the car overturned.
ABS
ABS helps the car stopped short, though its main advantage is to keep the car remains in a straight path, although the brakes on slippery roads. In addition, to help drivers control the steering wheel when braking.
When using ABS, keep pressing the brake pedal and do not be lifted until the car stops. Do not be at the pump. If the system works you will feel no pulsation in the pedal quickly. Serves to reduce wheel slip when accelerating from rest. It also serves to replace AWD, though not as tough as AWD.
In its development now, the enhanced system with EBD (braking power dividing evenly on four wheels) and Brake Assist (braking assist in emergencies).
Electronic Stability Program
This system helps the car stay on track when cornering, to avoid slippage. Very useful on slippery roads. In the SUV, it is useful to avoid a rollover. This system is commonly found luxury cars, though now offered on most cars.
Child-seat attachments
It is recommended when taking the kids to drive, use special seats for children. Output of new cars already equipped with a hook now known or ISOFIX latch. This system uses a hook mounted behind the rear seat backrest and cushion, so that a special chair that can be associated with easy and safe.

Tire-pressure monitor
This system is used to warn you when tire pressure is reduced, before the condition becomes serious problem. New rules in the USA require that the system is installed on all cars in the next three years.Happy driving, do not forget to pray.