The earliest Porsches were pioneering in terms of car safety features. Since then, the protective features of these ultimate luxury vehicles have only improved, and today’s modern Porches are still ahead of the curve when it comes to both technological and structural safety systems. If you’re driving a new car off the lot of a Porsche dealer today, you can rest assured that you’re very well protected. Let’s take a look at the best of these features.
Anti-Lock Braking
With so much horsepower under your command, Porsche drivers need every little extra when it comes to staying in control on the road. Porsches have superb anti-lock braking, which serves to prevent skidding in the event that you need to slam on the brakes.
Stability Control
Further prevention of sliding or skidding is provided by advanced Stability Control. This feature uses computerized systems to continuously monitor your speed, adjusting power to your wheels in a way that helps make sure you remain in control at all times.
Porsche Active Safe
The most common form of road accident is frontal collisions. With Porsche Active Safe, your car helps ensure you avoid such an experience with a powerful radar that scans the road up to 650 feet ahead at all times. If there’s any danger of a frontal collision, it alerts you both visually and audibly.
Collision Avoidance
If you fail to respond to your vehicle’s frontal impact warning in time, then your car will automatically slow and even stop to prevent the collision. This includes moments when a pedestrian or cyclist might wander into your path.
Lane Keeping
Even the best of drivers can become distracted on occasion and wander from their lane. The Lane Keeping feature detects any such dangerous drifting motion and nudges the steering to keep you safely in your lane.
Lane Changing Assist
When it comes to intentional lane changes, one danger all drivers face is their blind spots. A Porsche’s Lane Changing Assist feature notifies you of other traffic when you intend to change lanes, including anticipated traffic in your blind spots. This feature turns the once-stressful effort of heavy-traffic driving into a breeze.
Superior Airbags
In 1987, the 944 Porsche Turbo was the first vehicle to have airbags for both driver and passengers fitted as standard. Today, modern Porsches still have the very best airbag systems available. You have front, side, and overhead-impact airbags installed, to protect every part of your body in the event of an accident, no matter what happens to the car.
Crumple Zones
If a collision were to occur, you and your passengers are further protected from harm by the Crumple Zones. These zones of the car are designed to crumple inward, absorbing the brunt of any impact, keeping the exerted force from injuring people inside the car as best as possible.
Ask Your Local Porsche Dealer About Safety Cells
The driver and passengers are further protected from the force of a collision by Safety Cells. These cells are reinforced frames that structurally protect the cabin and each individual person inside, allowing the force of an impact to dissipate elsewhere.
For a more detailed introduction to these Porsche safety features and more, visit Porsche Chantilly. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff are dedicated to providing an unforgettable vehicle purchasing and servicing experience to everyone who steps foot through our doors.
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