Modern GMC vehicles are packed to the rafters with innovative safety features. These features are designed to complement the driver’s own safe driving habits, enhancing your awareness of hazards and accelerating your reaction time when required. For a full tour and demo of these excellent safety and assistance features in action, visit your nearest GMC dealer. In the meantime, let’s take a quick look at some of the best of them.
Enhanced Rear Vision
There are many times when a driver needs to see what’s behind them, but side and rearview mirrors alone are limited. With various high-definition rearview cameras in strategic positions, you can now glance at your dashboard screen to see exactly what’s behind you at all times.
GMC vehicles even have a button that switches the rearview mirror into a screen showing the rear camera’s closer viewpoint. This makes parking in tight spots, backing out of driveways, switching lanes, and simply checking behind you far easier and more accurate.
Forward Collision Avoidance
GMC cars provide excellent forward collision mitigation systems. With cameras and sensors, your vehicle constantly monitors the road ahead in great detail.
Any vehicle stopping too quickly or pedestrian cutting across your path will be instantly noticed. You’ll be alerted both audibly and visually, and if you’re slow to react, your vehicle’s emergency brakes can slam on for you, with anti-lock braking to reduce the risk of a skid.
Lane Keeping and Changing Assistance
Both keeping your lane and changing lanes are made far safer with the various lane assistance features offered by both brands. Cameras monitor your blind spots, helping you choose the right moment to change lanes. And if you ever start to drift into another lane, the cameras monitoring the lane ahead will detect this unintentional wandering and alert you, even providing a burst of torque to help you get back into the center of your lane.
Adaptive Cruise Control
Following the three-second rule is also far easier with Adaptive Cruise Control, which measures a preset distance from the car in front and maintains that distance, braking and accelerating when needed. If you’d rather stay in control, you can set the distance measurement tool alone to keep you aware of exactly how far you are from other vehicles.
Intelligent Headlights
While driving at night, there’s always a risk of blinding other drivers if you forget to turn off your high beams as they pass. Intelligent headlight features in GMC vehicles handle that task for you, lowering and brightening your headlights as required.
See More Safety and Assistance Features at Your GMC Dealer
You’ll find many more safety and security features as standard and available on modern GMC cars. There are automatic parking systems, stability control features, multi-directional airbags, tire pressure monitoring systems, traffic sign recognition cameras, and more. For a full rundown of these features, you can always ask at your local dealership.
Visit Performance GMC Columbus to learn more about the safety-related features of modern GMC vehicles. We’ve been working hard to keep the region’s drivers safe and happy on the roads since 1979.
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