{"id":260,"date":"2015-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/drivers-may-be-unaware-of-the-latest-safety-features\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:34:33","slug":"drivers-may-be-unaware-of-the-latest-safety-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/drivers-may-be-unaware-of-the-latest-safety-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers may be unaware of the latest safety features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With automakers bringing their newest offerings to dealerships this month, performance is likely going to be one of the things automakers will use to entice car buyers. Some will also tout the latest safety features; while others will flaunt new designs. While performance and design will cater to buyers who want the newest toy, a recent study suggests that few drivers understand the latest safety offerings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the University of Iowa Public Policy Center\u2019s Transportation and Safety program, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2015\/09\/09\/381185.htm\" target=\"_blank\">large information gaps when it comes to communicating potentially life saving safety features<\/a>. For example, drivers may know about the term cruise control, which keeps a car at a certain speed, but a majority of drivers do not know about adaptive cruise control, which does the same thing but also can slow the car down when approaching traffic or encountering difficult driving conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same could be said about backup cameras. Once something that could be found only on luxury car models, the federal government has now required all new cars built in 2018 to require such cameras as standard equipment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/drivers-may-be-unaware-of-the-latest-safety-features\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Drivers may be unaware of the latest safety features\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With automakers bringing their newest offerings to dealerships this month, performance is likely going to be one of the things automakers will use to entice car buyers. Some will also tout the latest safety features; while others will flaunt new designs. While performance and design will cater to buyers who want the newest toy, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drivers may be unaware of the latest safety features &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; September 12, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Drivers may be unaware of the latest safety features - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/drivers-may-be-unaware-of-the-latest-safety-features\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Drivers may be unaware of the latest safety features &#8212; 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