Guide to Toyota Safety & Assistance Features in Myrtle Beach, SC
Guide to Toyota Safety & Assistance Features
Safety and Driver-Assistance Features on Toyota
Your Toyota vehicle can help ease your mind while driving with its suite of safety features that put you and your passengers first. Every new Toyota vehicle is equipped with Toyota Safety Sense, which uses several safety features to prevent potential collisions from occurring. Thanks to this advanced technology, you can have confidence when you’re on the road. Keep reading to learn about the features available with Toyota Safety Sense.
Toyota Safety Sense Features
Toyota Safety Sense acts as an extra set of eyes when traveling and is designed with the driver in mind. This suite of safety features can monitor your surroundings and make the necessary adjustments to keep you and your passengers safe. Here are the features included in the Toyota Safety Sense:
- Proactive Driving Assist – This feature can gently steer and brake when necessary to keep your vehicle safe from vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists.
- Pre-Collision System With Pedestrian Detection – Using radar and sensors, your vehicle monitor the surrounding area for motorcyclist, pedestrians, bicyclist, and vehicles, and if one of them is detected in your pathway, then a visual and audible alert will sound to alert the driver to take action. If the driver doesn’t react, the emergency brakes will be applied to prevent or reduce the impact of the collision.
- Automatic High Beams – When traveling over 21 miles per hour, this feature can detect the headlights and taillights of other vehicles. It will automatically switch between the low and high beams accordingly.
- Dynamic Radar Cruise Control – If you’re traveling over 20 miles per hour and the cruise control is activated, you can preset a distance you would like your vehicle to maintain between your vehicle and the vehicle ahead of you. This feature can monitor that distance, and if it detects that the distance is decreasing, it can adjust the speed to keep the necessary distance.
- Road Sign Assist – Road signs like speed limits, do not enter, yield, and stop signs can be detected using this feature and will be displayed on the vehicle's dashboard.
- Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist – When you’re traveling over 30 miles per hour, your vehicle can monitor the lane markings. The driver will be alerted if the vehicle appears to be making an unintentional lane change. The vehicle will make steering adjustments to put the vehicle back in the boundaries of the lane.
- Lane Tracing Assist – Your vehicle can monitor the lane markings when you’re taking a curve and can assist by keeping the vehicle centered in the lane. If the vehicle alerts the driver and corrective action is not made, then the vehicle will automatically stop the vehicle.
You can also find a variety of standard and available safety and driver-assistance features that can be found on Toyota vehicles that are not included in Toyota Safety Sense, such as:
- Star Safety System – Features like an anti-lock brake system, traction control, brake assist, electronic brake-force distribution, vehicle stability control, and smart stop technology are all included in this package.
- Safety Connect – Features included in this package are a stolen vehicle locator, an emergency assistance button, automatic collision notification, and enhanced roadside assistance.
- Panoramic View Monitor – This feature uses cameras on the vehicle's front, rear, and sides to project a 360-degree view of the vehicle on your dashboard.
- Front and Rear Parking Assist with Automatic Braking – This features sensors located on the front and rear of the vehicle. If an object or vehicle is detected when you’re parking, the vehicle will alert the driver, and the brakes will be applied to prevent a collision.
Have Peace Of Mind with Toyota Safety Sense
Our team at Sparks Toyota is here to help you get a better understanding of how Toyota Safety Sense can benefit you when you’re on the road, so don’t hesitate to contact us or visit our dealership located at 4855 Highway 501, Myrtle Beach, SC, 29579. We look forward to your visit.