There are so many different things to focus on when you’re driving that it becomes impossible to focus on all of it by yourself unless you have about 4 pairs of eyes. The good news is that if safety features are your main concern as a driver, parent, or just as a person, the all-new 2018 Chevrolet Equinox has a variety of safety features to keep you safe so you don’t have quite so much to focus on at once.
Typically when you’re looking at a crossover, you’re looking for comfort and convenience, and unfortunately, sometimes safety is overlooked. The all-new 2018 Chevrolet Equinox provides all the fun features you’d expect and all the safety features you need. Keeping its passengers safe is a priority for the Equinox. Offering a suite of active safety technologies and adaptive crash-avoidance features that will have you and even your teen driver feeling safer behind the wheel. Teen Driver technology allows parents to set certain vehicle controls and review an in-vehicle report card with their teens, helping to encourage safe driving habits, making safety features a teaching tool.
“The Chevrolet Equinox ramps up its awareness and protection capability with an even broader range of available technologies designed to assist drivers in everyday situations,” said Ray Kiefer, General Motors Active Safety technical fellow. “From daily driving to parking and crash avoidance, it can help the occupants avoid trouble altogether.”
There are a variety of available advanced active safety features that use radar and camera-based technologies to improve awareness on the road for drivers of all kinds. These technologies can provide warnings about potential threats which will help the driver react accordingly a bit quicker than they would have without these technologies.
Some of these features include:
- New Safety Alert Seat
- New Surround Vision
- New Forward Collision Alert with Following Distance Indicator
- New Low-Speed Forward Automatic Braking
- New Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning
- New Rear Seat Reminder
- Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone AlertÂ
- Rear Cross Traffic Alert
With its new stronger body structure and advanced driver safety assistance features the 2018 Chevy Equinox is ready for just about anything. Adding to the already impressive features, the Surround Vision technology is a new feature that allows you to see the Equinox from a bird’s-eye view of your vehicle which will help drivers more confidently maneuver when reversing, parking or trailering. If you don’t have Surround Vision, no worries. This year the rear-vision camera system is now a standard feature for all Chevy models!
All of these new and exciting technologies don’t, however, eliminate the need for the more traditional safety features so you will also find six standard airbags, including frontal driver and passenger airbags; roof rail-mounted head curtain side airbags that help protect the front and outboard rear seating positions; and front-seat-mounted side-impact airbags.
Additional safety features include:
- Front passenger seat occupant sensing system; rollover sensing and protection system
- Collapsible pedal assembly to help protect against lower-extremity injuries
- Three-point safety belts in all five seating positions, safety belt retractor pretensioners and lap pretensioners in the driver- and front-passenger positions, and front safety belt load limiters
- LATCH child seat latching system in the rear seat
- Tire pressure monitoring system and daytime running lamps
- All of the Equinox’s crash-avoiding and passenger-protecting technologies are built into a stronger body structure that incorporates high-strength steel in key areas to help prevent intrusion into the passenger compartment.
To check out the 2018 Chevy Equinox or other Chevy models, stop by Harchelroad Motors of Imperial and Wauneta today! We’ll be happy to help you find your next vehicle!
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