These safety features are recommended, as each has been shown to help improve the likelihood of surviving a crash or avoiding it in the first place. The more of these features a vehicle has the safer the vehicle is.

Auto Emergency Braking - Vulnerable Road User 

Recommended Safety Features

Illustration of a vehicle demonstrating active safety features.

Active safety features can help to prevent or reduce the severity of a crash.

ESC is an automatic feature that becomes active if you lose control of your car.

Electronic Stability Control

Lane keeping technologies are designed to prevent you from leaving your lane of travel.

Lane Keep Assist

Driver Attention Detection, sometimes known as fatigue detection warns drivers if signs of drowsiness are detected.

Driver Attention Detection

AEB is technology designed to apply your car’s brakes when you can’t to help avoid or reduce the severity of a crash in low and higher speed zones.

Auto Emergency Braking

The vehicle detects the current speed limit and notifies the driver.

Intelligent Speed Assistance

At the time of this test Safety Assist was not evaluated. Look out for the inclusion of features like Auto Emergency Braking, Electronic Stability Control and Side Curtain Airbags.

Safety Assist

Active Safety Features

The structure of a car and its passive safety features can help to protect adult occupants in a crash.

Side Curtain Airbags are designed to protect you and your passengers from head injuries during a crash.

Illustration of cars colliding in a front on crash

Side Curtain Airbags Front Row

Airbag in the front drivers side to prevent the driver from striking other parts of the vehicle in the event of a crash.

Front Airbag Driver

Front airbag in the passenger side to prevent the occupant from striking other parts of the car in the event of a crash.

Front Airbag Passenger

At the time of this rating Adult Occupant Protection was not tested by ANCAP. Look for side curtain airbags and dual frontal airbags in your next car.

Adult Occupant Protection

Crash Protection for Adults

The structure and safety features of a car can help protect a child in a crash.

Side Curtain Airbags Second Row

At the time of this rating Child Occupant Protection was not tested by ANCAP. Look for side curtain airbags in the second row in your next car to help protect child passengers in a crash. Child restraints can provide added protection, find safety ratings for child seats at www.childcarseats.com.au

Child Occupant Protection

Crash Protection for Kids

The design of a car and its safety features can help reduce the severity of or even avoid a crash with others, including vulnerable road users.

Reversing Camera technology is used to provide you with visibility behind your vehicle.

Icon of a person on a bike with a warning signal

Reversing Camera

AEB technology designed to apply your car’s brakes when you can’t to help avoid or reduce the severity of a crash with pedestrians and cyclists.

Vulnerable Road User Auto Emergency Braking

Detects vehicles you can't see that are next to or behind your car and warns you when they are in your blind spots.

Blind Spot Warning

At the time of this rating Pedestrian Protection was not tested by ANCAP. Look for a reversing camera, vulnerable road user auto emergency braking and blind spot warning in your next car to help protect other road users.

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Safety Features