When your Chevy’s safety features detect a potential collision threat, you’ll receive an instant visual warning. With an active Chevy Safety Alert Seat, you’ll also feel directional vibrating pulses in your seat that ensure you notice the threat and respond appropriately. Here’s how this clever feature works.
Understanding Chevy’s Safety Alert Seat
With this feature, when your car’s radar or camera systems notice a collision threat, small motors are activated in the driver’s seat. You’ll feel a vibration pulse on the left or right of the seat, which indicates the direction in which you need to turn your attention. If the hazard is directly ahead or behind, your seat will pulse on both sides at once.
Typically, you have two optional settings for collision threat warnings. You can either receive a visual warning and an audible alert, or you can receive a visual warning and a kinetic alert through the safety alert seat. The types of alert vary by model.
Safety Features That Trigger the Safety Alert Seat
Whichever Chevy you drive, you’ll have a number of standard safety features monitoring the road. Additional driver-protection features are optional or included in higher-end trims. Here are some examples that trigger the safety alert seat.
Forward Collision Alert
With a forward-pointing camera or a combination of camera and radar, this feature monitors the road ahead. If another vehicle suddenly slows or stops, you’ll be warned with pulses on both sides of the safety seat. This feature also warns you if you’re approaching another car too rapidly.
Front Pedestrian Braking
If a pedestrian wanders into the road while you’re driving at speeds between 5 and 50 mph, this feature instantly detects the hazard and warns you using the safety seat. As pedestrian threats are typically directly in front, you’ll feel pulses on both sides at once.
Rear Cross-Traffic Alert
Backing out of a tight perpendicular parking space or driveway is risky unless you have this feature active. Rear cross-traffic alert scans the road in either direction and warns you clearly using the safety alert seat if another vehicle is there. You’ll feel a pulse on the side from which the hazard is approaching.
Rear Park Assist
Whenever you’re reversing, this feature uses ultrasonic sensors to measure the distance from walls, vehicles, and other obstacles behind you. When an object is first detected at a distance of 8 feet, your seat will pulse twice on both sides. As you draw nearer, you’ll feel a growing number of pulses. At both two feet and one foot away, you’ll feel five pulses through your safety seat.
Find Out if Your Favorite Model Has a Chevy Safety Alert Seat
Would you like to know whether or not your preferred Chevy has this excellent safety feature? Drop by our dealership to find out and witness first-hand how it works.
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