| How safe is your car? Is it above
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| | report feeling safer because they can see
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| average? Do you have any idea how well it
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| | out over traffic. Yet a vehicle with a
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| can withstand collision? The answers to
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| | high center of gravity is more likely to
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| these queries are very important not just
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| | roll. Large and heavy cars cocoon
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| to car occupants but to automakers as
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| | passengers in copious steel, protecting
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| well. Experts say showing consumers how a
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| | them in the event of a collision. Yet
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| particular car performs in times of
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| | large and heavy vehicles are more likely
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| collision is an effective sales tactic.
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| | to lose traction. They're more likely to
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| At the much-concluded New York Auto Show
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| | be involved in an accident in the first
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| held last week, one of the most
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| | place."
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| controversial displays was a crumpled
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| | But misconceptions are slowly jettisoning
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| Ford Taurus. The display was the Dearborn
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| | consumers' mind. Last year, Volkswagen AG
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| automaker's effort to show visitors how
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| | ran the "Safe Happens" campaign to
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| durable Ford parts are and how well
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| | promote the Jetta and the Passat. The
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| Taurus withstands a collision.
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| | campaign effectively tickled consumer
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| Ford Motor Co.'s display created an
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| | interest in VW.
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| ambiance that made consumers think more
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| | SmartCar, moreover, used videos of the
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| about their car safety especially in a
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| | crash tests on the Internet even before
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| crash. For some buffs, the automaker's
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| | the ForTwo was offered for sale in
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| introduction of its innovative safety
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| | America. At the automaker's press events,
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| features is treated as a breath of fresh
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| | crumpled, rolled and battered vehicles
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| air.
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| | were displayed. The move has pulled
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| Historically, automakers avoid any
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| | consumers closer to SmartCar.
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| suggestion that vehicles actually collide
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| | Big names in auto safety such as Volvo
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| and occupants could die in their cars.
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| | Cars have also introduced features that
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| However, safety inside cars has become a
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| | provide protection to occupants in
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| hot issue in the past decades. This is
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| | collisions. Features include crumple
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| why, at present, automakers are finding
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| | zones, seat belts, airbags, side impact
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| ways to offer the most effective auto
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| | protection, strong occupant compartment,
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| features to ensure safety of car
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| | and head rests. What's more, car features
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| occupants.
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| | that help avoid crashing such as
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| Car safety has always been difficult to
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| | electronic stability control (ESC),
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| explain. It is also difficult to sell.
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| | antilock braking systems (ABS),
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| And automakers have allowed unspoken
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| | intelligent speed adaptation (ISA),
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| white lies about safety to promote their
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| | traction control, and active braking
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| cars. Wired News reported: "Drivers who
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| | systems were also installed in vehicles.
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| ride high in a vehicle, for example,
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