One of the most important features of any Ford or Lincoln vehicle is safety. The engineers at Ford have put plenty of thought into keeping drivers and passengers safe when the unthinkable happens. The team here at Ford Lincoln of Franklin wanted to give you a look at some of the best safety features that Ford and Lincoln vehicles use. Here’s what we found:
Air Bags
Front, side, rear, and available rear passenger knee air bags deploy on collision to further insulate you from contact with hard surfaces within the cabin. Electronic sensors and controls detect collision and inflate airbag restraints in milliseconds, the bags then deflate quickly after use.
Electronic Stability Control
Keeping you headed in the right direction, even if you’ve got to make some stiff adjustments to avoid an obstacle, electronic stability control works with multiple sensors and commands to keep you safe. By measuring things like steering wheel angle, traction, and body roll, electronic stability control applies braking adjustments and wheel power to keep all wheels in contact with the road and the body from sliding.
Forward Collision Warning
As part of the adaptive cruise control system, forward collision warning gives you heads up advanced warnings if a collision is possible. With brake support, your brakes will pre-charge if you don’t react in time and increase their sensitivity.
Four Wheel ABS
Anti-lock braking on all four contact surfaces of the vehicle ensure that you maintain traction in aggressive stops. Keeping the wheels rotating means that the vehicle will respond to steering command, and that means you’re in control. ABS avoids locking up the wheels and keeps you from skidding and losing control.
Lane Keeping System
With the push of a button you activate a system that monitors the road in front of you. The lane keeping system monitors your position relative to the road markers and, if you veer out of lane, will send tactile vibrations through the steering wheel to alert you. And with lane keeping aid, the system applies gentle torque to the steering wheel in the direction you need to guide the car to.
BLIS® with Cross Traffic Alert
The Blind Spot Information System, or BLIS®, uses radar to detect if a vehicle is present in your blind-spot and sends you an alert in the appropriate mirror. Blind spot alert keeps you from changing lanes or veering into an oncoming vehicle that you can’t see in your mirrors.
Ford Safety Features
What you see here are only the few features that we thought were really exciting, but safety doesn’t’ stop here with Ford and Lincoln. Ford works hard to meet the rigors of crash standards and the benchmarks that the IIHS puts out. With body designs that absorb the energy of a crash to interior components that make sure you’re insulated from as much impact energy as possible, the safety features from Ford put you and your family first when it comes to safety.
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