Mazda prioritizes safety of their customers/buyers as the Japanese automaker believes that great performance is nothing if there is nothing to match or control all that power when circumstances call for it. Below are some of their safety technologies which they have developed over the years in the industry of automotive vehicles.

Dynamic Stability Control for Side Skid

Mazda has a Four-Wheel Antilock Braking System (4W-ABS), Electronic Brake Force Distribution System (EBD) and braking assistance that enhance the braking performance of their vehicles. Aside from that, it also makes use of Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) system to the car to avoid or prevent skidding sideways which may be caused by understeering or oversteering.

Understeer may happen when the owner fails to follow the intended path of steering. Mazda’s DSC system decreases the torque of the engine and utilizes the brakes to the inner-side wheels to prevent the front tires from skidding sideways.

Oversteering, on the other hand, takes place when the driver makes too much turns into the direction of the steering. The side skidding of the back tires is then controlled by applying the brakes to the outer-side wheels.

Two New technologies Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS)/Pre-crash Safety System

The Adaptive Front Lighting System is that which adjusts the headlight’s lowbeams by turning side to side according to the steering angle and the speed of the vehicle to improve the visibility during turns, cornering, and maneuvers. The maximum angle to which the headlights rotate is 20 degrees for the right headlight and 15 degrees for the left. Because of the large angle rotation, the path of the vehicle when it is making a turn is all the more illuminated.

The Pre-crash system makes use of the latest collision prediction technologies to reduce injuries to the passengers when collision occurs. This system identifies the vehicles in front, oncoming vehicles, and other obstructions through the use of milliwave radar. If there is a possibility for a collision to occur, it gives warning by buzzing and a light. It will also automatically engage the brakes to decrease impact speed if the driver fails to do so.

These are just of the systems which Mazda developed in the hope of reducing road accidents and saving lives or sav9ing the passengers from the gravity of injuries that may be brought by vehicular accidents.