Start Your Year Off with Improved Safety Features from Porsche

by Porsche Silver Spring

With more focus on safety technology than ever before, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the wealth of features designed to keep you safe while you’re on the road. Porsche is putting safety first with Porsche Innodrive, which combines all the best safety technology to keep you alert, aware, and on the right path. Not only does Porsche's suite of driver assistance systems look out for you, passive safety features are hard at work ensuring your vehicle maintains unwavering brake and traction performance. Check out some of the most impressive ways Porsche is protecting you and your passengers on the road.

Active Safety Features

For 2020, Porsche Innodrive builds on the latest innovations in safety with features that rely on radar and cameras to detect, warn, and even sometimes prevent collisions.

Collision and Brake Assist – This feature can detect potential frontal collisions with vehicles or other obstacles and notify the driver to apply the brakes, or it can even autonomously apply full braking force during emergency situations.
Lane Keep Assist – By monitoring the markings, curbs, and road edges using the forward-facing camera, Lane Keep Assist can notify you when you deviate from your lane. If needed, it can even make small steering adjustments on its own.
Integrated Traffic Sign Recognition – As a part of the Lane Keep Assist feature, the traffic sign recognition system relies on the navigation system and camera to display speed limit and no passing zone signs on your Porsche’s instrument cluster.
Auto High Beam Activation – Never blind oncoming drivers again. Automatic high beams can sense headlights from oncoming and preceding vehicles and automatically switch between high and low beams when necessary.
Adaptive Cruise Control – This feature maintains a pre-set distance between you and the car in front of you by automatically adjusting speed.
Lane Change Assist with Turn Assist – Using external radar sensors mounted around the vehicle, the Lane Change Assist feature can detect cars in your blind spot and send notifications to let you know it's not safe to merge.

Passive Safety Features

In addition to the driver assistance features available on most Porsche models, these passive safety features are quietly working behind the scenes and keeping you and your passengers safe. These features also inspire driving confidence that can help you tackle a variety of road conditions.

Porsche Stability Management (PSM) – In instances of strong oversteer or understeer while cornering, the Electronic Stability Control system helps to regain and maintain predictability.
Porsche Traction Management (PTM) – This feature keeps your drive wheels planted in the event of excessive throttle input on surfaces like ice, mud, and wet roads.
Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) – ABS keeps your wheels from locking up when brakes are applied heavily, making sure your vehicle comes to a stop when you need it to.
Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes – As a brand that’s committed to performance, unparalleled braking ability seems like a no-brainer, and Porsche’s Ceramic Composite Brake performance exceeds all expectations.

Prevention and Protection

Porsche has always been dedicated to protecting its customers, and thanks to some amazing advancements in safety technology, your Porsche isn’t just built for performance and style. It’s also built to protect you, your family, other motorists, and pedestrians in revolutionary ways. For more information about this automaker’s innovations in safety technology or to see these features in action for yourself, contact the team at Porsche Silver Spring today or visit our showroom at 3131 Automobile Blvd, Silver Spring, MD 20904.

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