When driving, one of the things that we have to take into consideration is safety. Not just for ourselves but for our passengers and for the drivers around us. It’s a way for us to be responsible drivers and it’s a way to prevent and avoid accidents like head-on collisions, side collisions and rear-end collisions. In order to combat the latter from happening to drivers who are driving their cars, Mazda has come up with a system to prevent that from happening called the Rear Collision Warning System.

The Rear Collision Warning System is a system that warns the driver, prior to changing lanes, that a car is coming from behind. This ensures that the driver is forewarned and stays in his or her lane in order to avoid a collision. The system is able to alert the driver when his or her vehicle goes beyond 60 kilometers per hour. It is also able to detect the vehicles in the next lane that are 50 meters behind. While on driving, the warning device alerts the driver that a car is coming from behind by activating its LED. Once the driver makes an attempt to turn or maneuver to the next lane while the LED is activated, the system will then emit a sound and will trigger the LED to start flashing to warn the driver that a collision may occur.

The Rear Collision Warning System will be installed in the upcoming Mazda Atenza which will be released in Japan this month. This marks the first time that this type of system will be launched in Japan. Systems similar to this have already been released in Europe and installed in their automobiles, particularly by Volkswagen. Japan’s not the first country to have this type of warning system? That actually sounds funny considering that they’re known to be in the forefront of technological advancement. Hopefully this will help lessen, if not prevent, rear-end collisions from occurring in Japan.

Sources:

Speed Demon, Mazda News

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