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Mazda6 safety technologies revealed

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By David Zalstein |
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Mazda has announced a string of advanced safety technologies that will feature in the all-new Mazda6 when it launches in Australia in both sedan and wagon forms in early 2013.

Mazda’s ‘i-ActivSense’ is an umbrella name for a series of advanced safety technologies that make use of detection devices, such as millimetre wave radars and cameras, to aid drivers in recognising hazards, avoiding collisions and reducing the severity of accidents when they cannot be avoided.

Mazda6 - High Beam Control System

Included in i-ActivSense is radar-controlled cruise
 control, lane departure
 warning and adaptive headlights with automatic high-beam control.

Other i-ActivSense technologies include:

  • Forward Obstruction Warning – detects vehicles ahead and alerts the driver to an approaching risk of collision
  • Rear vehicle monitoring – detects cars in the driver’s blind spot on either side of the car or approaching from behind and alerts the driver to potential risks
  • Smart Brake Support – automatically applies the brakes when the risk of frontal collision is detected while travelling at 15km/h or more
  • Smart City Brake 
Support – automatically stops or reduces the vehicle’s speed when there is a risk of a collision with the vehicle ahead when travelling at speeds of between 4km/h and 30km/h; and
  • Acceleration Control on models fitted with automatic transmissions – limits engine power output and alerts drivers if the accelerator pedal is pressed excessively while an obstacle is detected in front of the car.

Mazda6 - Blind Spot Monitoring

While Mazda says the full spectrum of i-ActivSense technology will be fitted to the Mazda6 range, the final list for vehicles sold in Australia is yet to be confirmed.

Whatever safety tech is decided on will join the brand’s innovative capacitor-based i-Eloop brake energy regeneration system that is to be included as standard equipment.

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  • Daniel

    Even though I’ve never owned a Japanese car (not snobbery, just preference) even to me Mazda has had two generations of really great cars this last ten years. But anything from this point on to me has just kind of lost it. The CX-5 is really boring, really expensive and has had an interior and (to me) exterior design downgrade over the CX-7. This new 6 is following suit, it’s trying to be cool but it’s actually kind of boring. I think that their interiors are what is suffering the most though – the quality wasn’t up there but the exterior design over the last two generations has been really good. The new cars have really bland nineties looking interiors with entertainment systems just slotted in. They look really tacky. I hope Mazda get back on track.

    • Sydlocal

       Damned if manufacturers do, damned if manufacturers don’t. If car makers have an integrated entertainment unit people complain that they can’t upgrade etc easily with aftermarket stuff (used to hear it all the time when they started going to integrated units). A manufacturer uses a double din entertainment unit that allows easy upgrades etc and people complain it looks like it is ‘just slotted in’ etc. As the saying goes, you can’t satisfy all of the people all of the time!

      • Richard

        Very few people upgrade their infortainment systems nowadays.

        • Sydlocal

           Exactly, because most are integrated!  ;-) ;-) TIC

  • Zaccy16

    Sounds like very impressive tech! 

    • Zaccy16

      Specially for a 30-40 thousand dollar car!

      • Richard

        VW Up! has the collision mitigation tech – its a 14K car.  

        • Zaccy16

          It has the collision tech but not all of the tech this has

        • Sydlocal

           *(plus on road costs)

  • nugsdad

    my strong belief is that the new VF Commodore needs to offer all of this or like the Falcon it will be seen as a dinasour

    • Guest

      Already a dinosaur.

  • Lotsamoolah

    I bet ya it’s roof strength is no where near as strong as the current Mazda3′s.

    • Amlohac

      eh?

  • Aussie

    Very good. Well done Mazda. I will consider this new Mazda 6 for my next car next year.

  • Wile E Coyote

    Forget all this bul- sh-t technology stuff I would just like people to know how to drive.

    Gee I am brain dead think I will buy a Mazda 6.

    Fuc.h them and all that look like them/

    • Amlohac

      Naw you’re just upset cos roadrunner keeps getting away. Chin up buddy.

    • Sydlocal

       It is a double edged sword this kind of tech. It is bad because it is making the bad drivers become worse as they become even more reliant on the car doing the work for them, yet on the other hand it means that the car is doing its best to stop these idiots from running into you etc!
      It is a glass half full/half empty kind of thing. By that comment I guess you are a “glass half empty” type of person?! ;-)

    • Noel

      These are driver assistance devices not replacement devices.  There is this constant drone that if people weren’t bad drivers we wouldn’t need any of these devices.  Humans lose concentration, this is a fact, average concentration times range from 25 – 30 minutes, no amount of driver training can change this.  The only real solution is to allow drivers 30 minute of driving at any one time, of course this is slightly impractical.  Adding a device that does not lose concentration can only be a good thing.      

      Humans are not perfect, these devices are employed to try and iron out some that imperfection. 

  • Wile E Coyote

    Sure the car will take care of things.

    More time text,put on make up ,smoke that ciggy, each that burger,google map and surf the net.

    No one’s gonna die

    • Amlohac

      You could go back to your horse-n-cart if you really want a more authentic driving experience? I hear they are totally free of lots of technological advances, like air bags, seat belts, crumple zones, stablity control, abs, disc breaks oh my how the list goes on.

      But somehow, I doubt you will take this option. Are you really going to mock a car company for trying to make cars safer? Seriously?

      Such is the nature of technological progress buddy. If you dont like being safe when you drive its not our funeral.

      • Wile E Coyote

        I am not against technology pal just too much of it if you can get your politically correct head around that

  • Joe

    Yes, good to see all of this safety related technology in the new Mazda 6, but hasn’t the Ford Mondeo Titanium had exactly the same technologies for the past couple of years?