When buying a new car you often get the latest and greatest security and driver assist features which help make your car more secure and pleasurable to drive.

Aside from public transport, if you want to travel around the city without your own set of wheels; you could be walking, cycling or on the phone to a taxi . . .

We spend plenty of time in our car, whether we’re travelling to the bach for the holidays, ferrying the kids between classes and clubs, or stuck in gridlock.

The desire to build the safest vehicles possible, those that protect their occupants and other road users, and increasing motoring safety awareness has prompted an influx of technology that revolves around the simple parking sensor.

Manufacturers continue to come up with new genius ways to improve their vehicles, both to attract new buyers and to meet industry guidelines and best practises.

With so many backroads in our beautiful country, a flat tyre can happen in the most awkward of places and sometimes right in a spot where there’s no safe place to pull over.

With every new car we test, we find it quite mind-blowing discovering how modern technology and electrics have been used to do amazing things in the name of safety, luxury or comfort. 

We hear plenty about crashes that happen on our roads. What we don’t get any visibility on are those that could have happened, but didn’t.

As the years have gone by, we’ve all become accustomed to the various smartphone applications on offer. They’ve replaced notepads and maps that we once carried around with us and even the friend that we could always rely on for recommending the best places to eat.

Thankfully manufacturers have introduced a range of safety devices to keep our cars safe beyond a standard car alarm or immobiliser.