New Ford Safety Tech will Help You Swerve to Avoid Accidents and More

Ford has announced its next-generation safety systems which are expected to be available within the next two years. 

The American automaker wants to help drivers by letting them know when they are travelling the wrong direction on the road, by making parking easier and by detecting and steering around obstacles in the road.

Two of Ford’s new systems in development are already employed in other automakers’ vehicles, those being cross-traffic alert with automatic braking and an enhanced wide-angle camera view which should make parking easier.

The other new systems will be unique to Ford, like the new evasive steering assist, which uses radar and a camera to detect an impending crash and then helps the driver steer around it. Ford notes that the car won’t just steer itself, it must be activated by the driver taking emergency action.

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Driving against traffic on the wrong side of the road or on a one way street will also be eliminated thanks to a system that uses the front-mounted camera and GPS information to alert the driver when wrong-way driving happens.

Also in development is a new spot lighting system which uses infrared cameras to detect pedestrians, cyclists and animals, new headlights with beams that will widen at intersections and roundabouts and a traffic jam assist that will control the car in stop and go traffic.

Ford claims to offer the most nameplates in the U.S. with lane-keeping assist, rear cross-traffic alert, driver monitoring, adaptive high-beam assist, blind spot monitoring and advanced parking assistant.

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