Car safety is now a critical factor among modern car buyers since they prefer to buy cars that ensure the utmost safety of the driver as well as the passengers inside the car. Let’s understand the whole spectrum of car safety in detail.

The 3 Key Aspects of Car Safety

While the car’s platform plays an important role in minimising the impact due to a collision, it is significantly aided by active and passive safety features along with behavioural safety while driving.

Active Safety

It comprises safety measures such as ABS with EBD, 360 View Camera, Head Up Display, and ESP among others. These safety features are responsible for preventing accidents and keeping the passengers safe on the move.

ABS: Antilock Braking System

EBD: Electronic Brake Distribution

ESP: Electronic Stability Program

Passive Safety

Passive safety features in a car include airbags, vehicle platform on which the cars are built, pre- tensioned seatbelts with load limiters, and ISOFIX seat anchorages along with front, side, frontal offset impact compliance and pedestrian protection compliance. These features are designed to minimize the impact of vehicle crash on the driver/ passengers.

Behavioural Safety

Considering the biggest reason behind road accidents is poor compliance to traffic rules and unsafe driving habits, the most crucial aspect of safety becomes behavioural safety and hence it comes before active and passive safety. It is a combination of safe driving practices and preventive car maintenance to ensure safety for self and others on the road.

Here’s a good read about the safe driving practices that you can follow. As for the routine maintenance bit, here are the things to keep in mind:-

• Ensuring timely service of your car

• Make sure that headlights and indicators are in proper working conditions. Visibility is paramount for your safety on the road.

• Check if the tyres are properly inflated so that the car’s driving dynamics and stability are not impacted.

• Obeying traffic rules. Let’s keep the roads safer for all.

Maruti Suzuki is committed to ensuring safety in its car by equipping them with the aforementioned Active and Passive safety measures. At the same time, we also lay stress on the importance of Behavioural Safety through a variety of initiatives. It’s what we call ‘Safer Mobility’.