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Active VS Passi

Active safety systems work to prevent accidents from occurring by alerting the driver of potential hazards through technologies like automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, and lane departure warning. Passive safety systems activate after an accident to reduce injuries through features such as seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, and reinforced passenger compartments. Together, active and passive safety systems aim to first avoid collisions and then minimize harm if an accident does occur.

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Active VS Passi

Active safety systems work to prevent accidents from occurring by alerting the driver of potential hazards through technologies like automatic emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, and lane departure warning. Passive safety systems activate after an accident to reduce injuries through features such as seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, and reinforced passenger compartments. Together, active and passive safety systems aim to first avoid collisions and then minimize harm if an accident does occur.

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ACTIVE VS PASSIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS

ACTIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS

What is Active Safety System in the car?

Active Safety includes set of safety features which reduce the chances of an accident or collision in the
first place. Some manufacturers also call it as the ‘Primary Safety System’. Manufacturers employ the
active safety systems mainly to avoid the accident. These systems activate before the accident takes
place so that they could possibly avoid the accident.

The engineers/vehicle designers build a car with a high level of active safety through superior design.
This includes characteristics such as road holding, visibility, comfort, handling, and ergonomics.

Active systems respond to an abnormal event such as a safety problem. These systems can be activated
manually by the driver or automatically by a computer-driven system (by an ECU). Or sometimes, they
are part of the mechanical design itself.

Furthermore, such technologies could help avoid collisions and mitigation. Hence, they will play a key
role in automobiles in future. Vehicle component manufacturers such as Bosch, Delphi and ZF are some
of the leading companies which supply such safety systems.

SOME ACTIVE SAFETIES:

• Automatic emergency braking (AEB)

Brakes are automatically applied to prevent a collision or reduce collision speed.

• Forward-collision warning (FCW)

Visual and/or audible warning intended alert the driver and prevent a collision.
• Blind-spot warning (BSW)

Visual and/or audible notification of vehicle in blind spot. The system may provide an additional warning
if you use your turn signal when there is a car next to you in another lane.

• Rear cross-traffic warning

Visual, audible, or haptic notification of object or vehicle out of rear camera range, but could be moving
into it.

• Rear automatic emergency braking (Rear AEB)

Brakes are automatically applied to prevent backing into something behind the vehicle. This could be
triggered by the rear cross-traffic system, or other sensors on the vehicle.

• Lane-departure warning (LDW)

Visual, audible, or haptic warning to alert the driver when they are crossing lane markings.

• Lane-keeping assist (LKA)

Automatic corrective steering input or braking provided by the vehicle when crossing lane markings.

• Lane-centering assist

Continuous active steering to stay in between lanes (active steer, autosteer, etc.)

• Adaptive cruise control

Adaptive cruise uses lasers, radar, cameras, or a combination of these systems to keep a constant
distance between you and the car ahead, automatically maintaining a safe following distance. If highway
traffic slows, some systems will bring the car to a complete stop and automatically come back to speed
when traffic gets going again, allowing the driver to do little more than pay attention and steer.
PASSIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS

In contrast, the passive safety systems are those systems which react to the abnormal event. It means
that these systems activate during or after the accident takes place. Thus, the passive safety systems
help to reduce or decrease the effect of the abnormal event like an accident.

passive safety systems and devices prevent or reduce the severity of injuries when a crash is imminent
or actually happening.

SOME PASSIVE SAFETIES:

Seatbelts

Seatbelts limit the forward motion of an occupant, stretch to absorb energy, to lengthen the time of the
occupant's negative acceleration in a crash, reducing the loading on the occupants' body. They prevent
occupants being ejected from the vehicle and ensure that they are in the correct position for the
operation of the airbags.

Airbags

Airbags inflate to cushion the impact of a vehicle occupant with various parts of the vehicle's interior.
The most important being the prevention of direct impact of the driver's head with the steering wheel
and door pillar.

Laminated windshields

Laminated windshields remain in one piece when impacted, preventing penetration of unbelted
occupants' heads and maintaining a minimal but adequate transparency for control of the car
immediately following a collision. It is also a bonded structural part of the safety cell. Tempered glass
side and rear windows break into granules with minimally sharp edges, rather than splintering into
jagged fragments as ordinary glass does.
Crumple zones

Crumple zones absorb and dissipate the force of a collision, displacing and diverting it away from the
passenger compartment and reducing the negative acceleration impact force on the vehicle occupants.
Vehicles will include a front, rear and maybe side crumple zones (like Volvo SIPS) too.

Safety Cell

The passenger compartment is reinforced with high strength materials, at places subject to high loads in
a crash, in order to maintain a survival space for the vehicle occupants.

Anti-intrusion bars.

Side impact protection beams, also called anti-intrusion bars.

Collapsible steering

Collapsible universally jointed steering columns, along with steering wheel airbag. The steering system is
mounted behind the front axle - behind and protected by, the front crumple zone. This reduces the risk
and severity of driver impact or even impalement on the column in a frontal crash.

Padding of the instrument panel and other interior parts,

On the vehicle in areas likely to be struck by the occupants during a crash, and the careful placement of
mounting brackets away from those areas.

Cargo barriers

They are sometimes fitted to provide a physical barrier between passenger and cargo compartments in
vehicles such as SUVs, station wagons and vans. These help prevent injuries caused by occupants being
struck by unsecured cargo. They can also help prevent collapse of the roof in the event of a vehicle
rollover.

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