When buying a used car, you can gain extra value by finding a vehicle with advanced car safety features. You’ll also be safer when you pull off the dealership’s lot. Let’s look at some of the very best safety features to look for the next time you go shopping for used cars.
Pre-Collision System
One safety feature you shouldn’t miss out on is some variation of the 2022 Toyota Corolla’s exceptional pre-collision system. Your Toyota uses front-facing cameras and distance-measuring lasers to detect anything that might cause a potential collision, including pedestrians wandering into the road.
The system then warns you clearly if such a risk of collision arises. These pre-collision systems have saved many a driver from unnecessary rear-end accidents. Click here and take a look at the Toyota models available.
Automatic Emergency Braking
Hand-in-hand with pre-collision systems, you’ll usually find an automatic emergency braking mechanism. With this kind of safety feature, your car will automatically stop the vehicle for you if you fail to react quickly enough to a collision warning.
Anti-Lock Braking
In a rare moment when you need to brake hard, there’s always the danger that you’ll go into a skid, especially during winter. To mitigate this risk, try to buy a car with good anti-lock braking, which stops your car from skidding by monitoring rapid decelerations in the wheel and preventing the wheel from locking up completely.
Blind Spot Detection
The beauty of modern vehicles is how they make up for the innate human weaknesses of the driver. One such weakness is the blind spot we all have to the rear on either side.
If you can find a vehicle with blind-spot detection, then you’ll never again need to worry about your blind spot while changing lanes. Your vehicle will monitor your blind spots and alert you whenever something comes into them, usually displaying a small image on your mirrors or dashboard.
Rear Cross-Traffic Alert
Another point of danger is when you need to reverse into a road, perhaps while exiting a parking space. It can be hard to see oncoming traffic from either direction in this situation. So it makes sense to buy a car that helps you out with cameras or radar that sense oncoming traffic and let you know when all is clear.
High-Strength Steel Frames
In the unlikely event of an accident, you want to feel sure that you and your passengers will escape with minimal injury. Your vehicle must have specially designed high-strength steel frames that keep the car from crumpling onto you. The 2022 Toyota Corolla has just such a framework, making it an exceptionally safe car to drive.
Parking Assistant
Does parallel parking make you nervous? Safety features aren’t only about saving your life in a full-on accident. Sometimes they can save you from the small but costly hassle of bumping or scraping another car while parking.
If you have some kind of effective parking assistant feature, you needn’t fear parking in tight spots ever again. Such a system can use bumper cameras and lasers to know the exact position of the curb and other cars. It will then guide you into the parking spot with ease.
To have a tour of preowned vehicles with outstanding safety features, visit DARCARS Used Car and Service Center of Frederick. Our commitment to excellence in value and service doesn’t end at the sale alone. We’re committed to providing a positive ownership experience, whichever vehicle you go for.
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