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Chevrolet Prioritizes Safety With Advanced Features

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Gone are the days when seatbelts and airbags were considered “advanced safety features,” if you can believe such a day ever existed. In the modern era, much of the trust we put in our cars rests on what kind of driver-assistance technology they’ve got on board. Chevrolet is leading the charge into a safer future with a comprehensive suite of standard and available features designed to inspire confidence, encourage positive habits, and make the road a better place for everyone.

Here’s a quick rundown of some of Chevy’s most remarkable safety technology.


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Forward Collision Alert and Automatic Emergency Braking

Frontal collisions can range from minor fender-benders to potentially fatal accidents, but they’re all extremely unfortunate. Forward Collision Alert aims to prevent front-end crashes by using advanced camera technology to monitor the distance between you and the vehicle you’re following. If the system detects an imminent accident, it will sound an alert so you can apply the brakes. If you don’t respond quickly enough, Automatic Emergency Braking can independently slow your Chevy to a stop, hopefully avoiding a collision altogether.

Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning

Whether you’re splitting your focus between the road and your kids, feeling a bit drowsy, or just not paying full attention, it’s easy to drift out of your lane and create a potentially hazardous situation. That’s where Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning comes in. This advanced system utilizes similar camera technology as Forward Collision Alert to continuously monitor the road to keep you perfectly centered between the lines and will alert you if you slide off-course. It can even apply gentle autonomous steering to prevent errors.

Adaptive Cruise Control

When you’re using cruise control on the highway, it can be a hassle to constantly keep an eye on the speed of the driver in front of you. Adaptive Cruise Control allows you to set a firm following distance, which your Chevy will maintain by carefully modulating acceleration and braking, freeing you up to pay attention to everything else going on around you. This feature is also a fundamental part of GM Super Cruise — a futuristic semi-autonomous driving system coming to many Chevrolet vehicles over the next several years.

Teen Driver

If you’ve got a burgeoning driver in your family, it’s vital to encourage positive habits behind the wheel even as you prioritize their safety when you’re not on board. Chevrolet Teen Driver can limit some features, allow to you set speed warnings and limits, stop your teen from cranking the volume to full, and even prohibit them from shifting from park to drive for 20 seconds if their seat belt isn’t engaged. Once they’re out of the vehicle, you can use the infotainment screen to view a performance report card so you can coach them on how to be a better driver.

Clearly, Chevrolet doesn’t mess around when it comes to safety, and this summary only scratches the surface of how its vehicles help increase on-road confidence. In the coming years, you can expect the carmaker to introduce even more advanced tech that will continue to lead the industry.


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