Active safety

Developments suspensions, tires and providing electronic stability control and other driving aids have good progress in terms of handling automobiles, promoting road safety. Cars whose handling is considered hazardous by automotive journalists have become rare, although their frequency in the 1960 was significant, among other reasons because of the virtual disappearance of the engine architecture arrière.


It seems that future improvements in security focus less on limiting the damage caused by accidents on the limited number of them. Indeed, advances in electronics and the efforts of OEMs and gave birth to very sophisticated equipment that are or should gradually generalize on all vehicles. The best known of them is the ABS system to prevent the wheels from locking during braking of the vehicle, thereby maintaining control of the direction of véhicule. More recently, automakers try to tackle the fundamental problem of driver behavior, integrating systems assets to compensate for the shortcomings of the latter, either by directly requesting systems (detecting the level of alertness of the driver) either by replacing (eg through anti-collision systems can brake without driver intervention).