Have new technologies made cars less safe?



Modern technologies contribute to increase the security and safety of passengers, and to get the highest performance of the car, so the companies to work for development and promotion in the big advertising campaigns, to contribute to increase the proportion of sales, the negative side of those new technologies that, when the emergence of the problem by greatly affect the safety, So companies are called in those models until repaired.

For example, the Volvo company in 2009 called in its cars, because of a problem in the programming (software) where she was given the wrong signal to the fuel pump, which may cause a sudden stop and the reason for that in collision accidents.



Furthermore The Yamaha Corporation called in motorcycles manufactured between October 2004 and April 2005 because of problems with the sensor into the throttle valve, which may also lead to a sudden stop, and pulled Daimler for trucks some models of school buses because of problems in the wires, LED lighting, can lead to the difficulty of vision

Also The biggest losses for Toyota in 2009, a few months withdrew its more than 5.7 million vehicles, because of incidents of "unintended acceleration", which means that the car is accelerating on its own without the intervention of the driver, through the attached instead speed, or a problem in the link between the engine and instead speed system, which was electric and not via cable as usual.
Toyota also pulled more than 400,000 Prius because of a problem in the software (software) for the engine electronic control unit, which can can cause separation of the anti-lock braking system (ABS).

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