Ford Motor Company Becomes Industry's New Safety Leader

Lately Ford Motor Company has been pulling out all of the stops to win over consumers. First they won over the American public with their industry exclusive Microsoft partnership, offering the SYNC system, a hands free voice activated system which allows the driver to respond such items as audible text messages, without taking their eyes off of the road. And they introduced a radar enabled Adaptive Cruise Control System, which automatically controls the speed of the vehicle. Furthermore, they introduced a Blind Spot Information System, which warns drivers of vehicles in their path before changing lanes.

Now in a move to get more folks to buckle up, Ford Motor Company is pioneering inflatable seat belts. The inflatable belts will be available in the next generation Ford Explorer, which is expected to move from a truck-based SUV platform to a car-based crossover platform. The inflatable belts will help to distribute crash force energy five time more than the traditional belt.

Safety technology such as this reflects why Ford Motor Company (Ford, Lincoln and Volvo are apart of the company) along with Subaru and Volkswagen are considered some of the safest vehicles on the road today as determined by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety for the 2010 model. The Institute rates vehicles good, acceptable, marginal, or poor based on performance in high-speed front and side crash tests, a rollover test, plus evaluations of seat/head restraints for protection against neck injuries in rear impacts. To view which vehicles made the list, click here.