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Car safety is extremely important. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 42,636 people died in car accident sin 2004. Driving a car can be dangerous, but proper car safety could have helped prevent at least some of these deaths.

Items of car safety:

· Lights. Brake lights and turn signals and headlights are all safety features of your car... make sure that you use them, and make sure that none of your bulbs have burnt out.

· Mirrors. Properly align your side mirrors and rear view mirror to help eliminate blind spots. Remember, though, that even with your mirrors properly aligned, you will still have blind spots, so be sure to check them before you change lanes or drive in reverse.

· Seatbelts. Seatbelts keep you from being thrown forward and even from being ejected from your vehicle.

· Bumpers. Bumpers were created to withstand a small collision without damaging the main body work of your vehicle.

· Airbags. These days, there are not just front air bags, there are also side airbags and curtain airbags. All of these air bags protect people's heads in the event of a collision. Airbags can be dangerous to children, so be sure to read your owner's manual before placing a child in the front seat.

· Anti-lock braking system (ABS). Anti-lock brakes can shorten your braking time by preventing the brakes from locking and causing you to lose traction while braking.

· Four wheel drive. Wheel spin is less likely when the power is distributed to all four wheels.

· Four wheel steering. This gives a driver faster and more accurate maneuvering ability at high speeds.

These are just a few items of car safety that are being added to most cars today. There are also less common forms of car safety (that are growing in popularity) like dynamic steering response (DSR), lane departure warning system (LDWS), directional headlights, inboard brakes, traction control (TCS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), and other interesting and safe technology.

Of course, just because you have a car with side curtain air bags and four wheel drive and a lane departure warning system, it does not mean that you can drive completely carefree, thinking that your car will take care of you.

While advancements in car safety are making modern vehicles more and more safe, they are only safe when a safe driver is behind the wheel. Car safety starts with you, the driver.

Car safety tips for the driver:

· Be completely sober!

· Wear your seatbelt.

· Do not talk on your cell phone while driving your car... the more attention you pay to your friend on the other line, the less attention are paying to the road, and vice versa. This is true regardelss of whether or not you have a hands-free phone! Your driving time is not the time to be multi-tasking.

· Do not eat while driving. Do not read, put on make-up, or dress while driving, either!

· Keep both hands on the wheel.

· Follow the speed limit.

· Drive slower in poor weather (or do not drive at all!)

· Never tailgate. Be sure to always leave plenty of room between you and the car in front of your.

· Think of escape routes. Make sure that you leave yourself enough room that you can change lanes quickly (without hitting anything) in case there is a problem (like a deer, another car not seeing you and changing lanes, etc.). Always have an outlet. Do not let other cars box you in.

· Drive Defensively. Stay calm. Do not let other drivers anger you. If they cut you off, leave it at that. Make sure that your anger towards them does not cause you to cut someone else off!

· If you are sleepy, do not drive.

· Stay out of other people's blind spots.

· Think of potential "problems." For instance, if there are young kids playing with a ball, be aware that they might chase it into the street.

· Try not to drive much at night.

· Perform regular maintenance on your vehicle!

There are many things that you can do to help maintain car safety. Sometimes an accident may be another driver's fault, but oftentimes even those accidents could have been avoided if you had done something differently (not to say that it is your fault if another car hits you!)

Car safety is important, so make sure that your car is as safe as possible and that you are, too!

Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, parenting, fashion, and home decor. Her background includes teaching and gardening. For more of her articles on car safety and cars, please visit Specialty Car Parts.

Traction Control vs. Electronic Stability Control Systems

Cars come with so many driver assistance systems these days it is hard to know which is which. In this article, we take a look at what traction control and electronic stability control systems are and how they differ.

The Lamborghini’s of the 1970s were beautiful cars. As you might imagine, they were also extremely fast. Despite their appearance, however, they were scary to drive. You could go unbelievably fast, but it felt like the car could take off in any direction at any time. It took a might brave or stupid person to drive one of the beasts very fast.

Modern car designers and engineers have focused on car control as a major issue. The good news is they’ve come up with some serious inventive systems to assist drivers. From anti-locking brake systems to cars that parallel park themselves, things have never been better. To systems that really help and are often confused are the traction control and electronic stability control system. Let’s take a look.

Traction control systems have been with us in one form or another for a long time. They really were heavily developed in Formula One open wheel racing where teams spend upwards of $400 million a year on extremely high tech cars. In fact, the systems were developed to such an extreme that cars hardly slowed down at all on the track. This resulted in a ban of all traction control systems, but the technology is standard on most cars sold to the public now.

A traction control system works by monitoring the spin rate of each wheel. This is done through the all conquering ECU [electronic computer unit] that controls the car. When a wheel starts to spin faster than the other three, the traction control system will slow it down by slightly triggering the brake on the wheel in question. This works to effectively stop slides or skids just before they become a major problem. Some traction control systems will also reduce the power being supplied to the wheel in question.

Most people mistakenly think a traction control system and electronic stability system are the same thing. They are not. The electronic stability control system [ESC] does not deal with wheel spin, but total car control. The system monitors the wheels, but also your steering wheel, the pitch of your car to one side or another and acceleration. If it determines the car is turning too much or too little, it will adjust the power to certain wheels and apply the brakes on other wheels to compensate. Let’s consider an example:

You are driving down a road in the rain. You come up on a left hand turn a bit fast. You turn and the back end of the car starts to spin around to your right. The ESC system automatically takes action. It will active the brake on the front right wheel and perhaps add a bit of power the left rear wheel if your car allows for it. This will effectively stop the back end of the car from continuing to swing around and save you from a wreck. Pretty amazing, eh?

If you are looking for safety in your car, you do not have to choose between traction control and electronic stability systems. Get both and throw in anti-locking brakes as well!

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Do I need to drive at low RPM's after a Timing belt change?

I have a 2003 Honda Accord EX-V6 with 112,000 mi. I just brought it into a local garage for a timing belt and water pump change. I needed to merge onto a semi highway, so I floored it. Usually when flooring the V6 I can go into 6.5K RPM's the it switches gears. Well, it went fine up to 4000 RPM, then it sputtered, and the "Check Engine" and "TCS" light came on. After several hours of waiting for the problem to be fixed, the mechanic told me after a Timing Belt change I need to go over 65MPH to reset the speed sensor. And that I have to stay below 4000Rpm for the next 2-3 weeks for the belt to set.

Is this normal? I was under the impression after it is replaced, I could go back on my merry way driving as I used to. The belt did not break, so I equated to other routine maintenance. Because I don't do anything special when I get and oil change of the brakes replaced...

NO you should be able to drive the car just as you bought it new they screwed up somewhere.they may have gotten the belt a tooth off somewhere.

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