All About Alfa Romeo Safety Features

When you sit down in a car and turn on the ignition, you want it to be safe. Luckily, Alfa Romeo has plenty of safety features to keep you and your passengers secure, no matter where you take your car. It has both active safety systems that are directly involved with driving and passive ones that are there just in case something goes wrong (think airbags). 

Let’s look at what these safety features are and how they work. 

Alfa Romeo’s Active Safety Systems 

These are the systems that you directly interact with, turn on, or override when you’re cruising in your performance car near Cantonment, FL. While not quite on the level of a self-driving car, they often have a certain amount of control over driving that makes up for human error. These systems include the following: 

Adaptive Cruise Control 

You’re probably familiar with the concept of cruise control—you press a button, and it keeps your car around a certain preset speed. Alfa Romeo’s Adaptive Cruise Control is a bit more complex than that. 

While it does keep your car at a certain speed, it also has camera and radar sensors that monitor traffic flow and detect the distance between your car and the other vehicles in your lane. Then it can brake or accelerate in relation to the traffic in front of and behind it. This allows you to keep a safe and steady distance from other drivers without having to constantly adjust the speed or slam on the brakes yourself. 

Driver Attention Alert 

Let’s face it: sometimes, you get distracted when you’re driving. Whether you’re glancing at your phone (a big no-no!) or simply gazing at a field on the side of the road (understandable, but still dangerous), you may lose your focus on the road. Other times, you may simply feel tired during a long drive. 

Fortunately, Alfa Romeo’s Driver Attention Alert feature passively monitors your driving behavior for any signs of distractions and activates an alert. This alert helps bring your attention back to the road, preventing many potential accidents. 

Active Blind Spot Assist

When you’re driving, blind spots will always exist, particularly farther back on the car’s sides. That’s just a fact of life, and most drivers deal with it by glancing back quickly when they switch lanes. Alfa Romeo’s Active Blind Spot Assist feature helps you do much better than that. This system uses sensors to keep track of the traffic on your right and left. Then it gives gentle inputs to guide the car back into its lane if it detects a car driving in one of your blind spots, preventing avoidable collisions. 

LaneSense® Lane Keep Assist 

While the previous safety feature protects you while you change lanes, the Lane Keep Assist helps you stay in your lane. You probably guessed that from its name. Alfa Romeo’s Lane Keep Assist feature is extremely precise and responsive, gently steering the car to keep it centered in its lane. That way, even if you get distracted or tired, your car won’t drift and collide with another vehicle. 

Forward Collision Warning with Full Stop 

As you may have noticed, most of these safety systems are designed to help you avoid accidents. The Forward Collision Warning may be the most important of these features because it alerts you to potential collision points in front of you. And, if swift action isn’t taken by the driver, the system can actually stop the car by itself. 

Alfa Romeo’s version of this feature alerts you to these problems during difficult driving conditions as well, such as heavy rainstorms. No matter how difficult the weather or the road conditions get, the Forward Collision Warning System will you safe and secure. 

Find Your Next Alfa Romeo in Pensacola, FL 

If you’re looking for a new Alfa Romeo, you can shop with confidence knowing that your new luxury vehicle will come with all these safety features and more. 

If you’re ready to test drive a new Alfa Romeo Giulia, Tonale, or Stelvio, just contact us online or call our dealership near Pace, FL at (850) 903-4724 and we’ll help you find financing, special offers on new vehicles, and tons of other great ways to save.