Ford Taurus SHO is Looking for Trouble – Literally.
Employing Radar and Sensor Technologies to Add Customer Convenience and Safety
The new Ford Taurus SHO uses radar and sensor technologies to look ahead, maintain a safe distance behind the vehicle ahead, monitor for rain or snow, dim the headlamps, notify the driver of vehicles lurking in the “blind spot,” help the driver back out of a parking space with limited visibility and scan for obstructions when reversing.
Radar and sensor technologies are utilized in the following features, available in the expressively-designed new Taurus.
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) allows the driver to set the Taurus’ cruising speed while using radar technology to monitor traffic travelling up to 600 feet ahead, automatically adjusting Taurus speed to help maintain a safe distance between vehicles. The system has three sensitivity settings, allowing the Taurus driver to adjust for varying road and traffic conditions. ACC is an optional Taurus feature for 2010.
Collision Warning with Brake Support is a new active safety feature, offered with the Adaptive Cruise Control system. Collision Warning with Brake Support uses a radar sensor to detect moving vehicles ahead and provides the driver with a “heads-up” display that flashes on the windshield and an audible warning when the system senses a rear-end collision risk ahead. If a collision becomes unavoidable and the driver has not reacted, the system will pre-charge the brakes and prepare the Brake Assist feature to support the driver for an aggressive braking action. Collision Warning with Brake Support is actively engaged while driving, regardless of cruise control use.
Rain Sensing Wipers use an advanced optical sensor to detect the intensity of rain or snowfall, and automatically engage and adjust wiper speed accordingly. An infrared beam “reads” the surface of the glass to inform the system. Customers can program the system among five different precipitation sensitivity settings.
Auto High Beams harness sensor technology to switch headlamps to high intensity when no other vehicles are in range and automatically reverting to the low beam setting when the headlamps or tail lamps of other vehicles are detected. Derived from sensing technology developed for NASA, the system can detect tail lamps ahead from 500 feet, and oncoming headlamps at a distance of 2,000 feet. A patented filtering technique distinguishes street lights from vehicle light sources, preventing unnecessary dimming.
Blind Spot Information System (BLIS™) consists of two multiple beam radar modules, one each per rear Taurus quarter panel. When a vehicle enters the defined blind spot zone, an indicator alert provides a visible warning to the driver in the corresponding side view mirror.
Cross Traffic Alert is enabled by BLIS, using existing radar modules to sense vehicles approaching when slowly backing out of a parking space. This industry-exclusive feature is activated only when the Taurus is in reverse and warns when cross-traffic appears within three car widths.
Reverse Sensing System is activated when the Taurus is put in reverse, and provides the driver with an audible warning if an obstruction is sensed in the vehicle path. The warning frequency and pitch increases as the Taurus moves closer to the sensed object
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