Africa Automotive News September-October digital issue 2019
Africa Automotive prides itself to be the ONLY Africa’s leading and MOST authoritative magazine for the automotive industry in Africa with printed copies for the automotive industry decision makers in both government, NGO’s and private sector. The Bi-monthly magazine offers cost effective advertising services that get results and improves growth in the auto B2C and B2B sector, keeping an eye on latest technologies in Africa and across the world, the magazine predominately covers the developments in the Africa auto industry.
Africa Automotive prides itself to be the ONLY Africa’s leading and MOST authoritative magazine for the automotive industry in Africa with printed copies for the automotive industry decision makers in both government, NGO’s and private sector. The Bi-monthly magazine offers cost effective advertising services that get results and improves growth in the auto B2C and B2B sector, keeping an eye on latest technologies in Africa and across the world, the magazine predominately covers the developments in the Africa auto industry.
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Technology<br />
Despite technology advancements,<br />
where do we stand with car safety?<br />
Safety features like forward collision warning and automatic<br />
emergency braking help drivers avoid them<br />
more than 300,000 lives have been<br />
saved because of them.<br />
Even today, seat-belt technology<br />
continues to evolve to make passengers<br />
safer. Two parts of a seat belt that work<br />
during a crash are the pretensioner and<br />
the limiter. The pretensioner pulls the belt<br />
tight so you don’t fly forward, and the<br />
load limiter lets out a little bit of slack<br />
so that you don’t get hurt by the belt.<br />
All this great technology isn’t standard<br />
on all cars and isn’t always available in<br />
backseats. It shouldn’t be a luxury option.<br />
Advances in technology are<br />
making cars safer than ever<br />
before, but not everyone has<br />
access to these lifesaving features. And<br />
did you know that 9 out of every 10<br />
serious crashes are linked to driver<br />
error?<br />
Safety features like forward collision<br />
warning and automatic emergency<br />
braking help drivers avoid them. But<br />
these safety features are standard only<br />
in 44 percent of <strong>2019</strong> model cars.<br />
Consumer Reports would like to see all<br />
cars have lifesaving technology.<br />
These systems are so important that<br />
Consumer Reports factors them into<br />
their ratings and would like more<br />
vehicles to have them as standard<br />
equipment. But the rollout has been<br />
slow. And CR says slow-to-market safety<br />
technology is all too common.<br />
Take a look at seat belts. Consumer<br />
Reports tested them in 1956, but it took<br />
more than 10 years for the government<br />
to require them on all cars. Since 1960,<br />
So what’s next for safety? Consumer<br />
Reports says we might be looking to<br />
the cloud to keep us safe on the roads.<br />
Vehicle to vehicle technology, or V2V,<br />
allows cars to communicate with each<br />
other and coordinate traffic signals to<br />
help avoid crashes. And automakers<br />
and tech companies say that self-driving<br />
cars could be the Holy Grail of highway<br />
safety, working to reduce or even<br />
eliminate crashes all together. But CR<br />
says fully self-driving cars are still years or<br />
even decades away.<br />
30 <strong>Africa</strong> <strong>Automotive</strong> <strong>News</strong> l <strong>2019</strong> <strong>September</strong>-<strong>October</strong> <strong>issue</strong> l <strong>2019</strong>
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