IS YOUR CAR SAFE? ....KNOW THE FACTS ON CAR SAFETY FEATURES

Written by Jinky C. Mesias


The car is one ofrepparttar most utilized commodities second to food. And because of this it is of great importance to make sure that you and your family is safe and secure whenever you go out for a ride. There are various car safety features readily available either online or offline that car owners can readily turn to for all their car safety feature requirements.

Some ofrepparttar 142813 most commonly used and sought after car safety devices are airbags with airbag shut-off switch, antilock braking system, automatic locking retractor and emergency retractor seatbelts, backup sensing system, child safety seat tethers, crash resistant door pillars, and crumple zones.

AIRBAGS All vehicles sold especially inrepparttar 142814 United States are required to have airbags in bothrepparttar 142815 driver as well asrepparttar 142816 passenger side ofrepparttar 142817 car. The advantage of having an airbag is that it preventsrepparttar 142818 driver as well asrepparttar 142819 passengers head from hitting onrepparttar 142820 rigid areas ofrepparttar 142821 vehicle especially during side impact collisions. The airbag shut-off switch onrepparttar 142822 other hand, switches offrepparttar 142823 airbag immediately since there are cases wherein airbags has suffocated children as well as injured small stature adults.

ANTILOCK BRAKING SYSTEM The antilock braking system enables drivers to quickly stoprepparttar 142824 car withoutrepparttar 142825 need to pumprepparttar 142826 brakes thus preventingrepparttar 142827 locking ofrepparttar 142828 wheels andrepparttar 142829 skidding ofrepparttar 142830 vehicle. The best feature of this device is that you asrepparttar 142831 driver is left to concentrate on steeringrepparttar 142832 car sincerepparttar 142833 device isrepparttar 142834 one that does allrepparttar 142835 pumping onrepparttar 142836 brakes for you and thus allowing you to apply constant pressure onrepparttar 142837 brake pedal. Moreover, this device can help drivers avoid collision especially during bad weathers.

AUTOMATIC LOCKING RETRACTOR AND EMERGENCY LOCKING RETRACTOR SEATBELTS This device is best suited for couples with children since it is important to ensurerepparttar 142838 safety ofrepparttar 142839 your children since you will never know just when accident will befall you. And also this device comes with seatbelts that are especially designed to automatically adjust and then lock in place to ensure thatrepparttar 142840 child seat is kept in place especially during higher than normal speed driving. And also it is important that when installing a child safety seat to make sure thatrepparttar 142841 belts are locked as tightly as possible.

Alexa Toolbar - The Ultimate Internet Tool

Written by Halstatt Pires


There are numerous tools available onrepparttar Internet to assist online businesses. A valuable tool that you should use isrepparttar 141419 Alexa Toolbar. Even better, this tool is free.

Alexa Toolbar

Founded in April 1996, Alexa.com was designed to provide an interactive web navigation system. The most impressive part ofrepparttar 141420 platform, now owned by Amazon.com, isrepparttar 141421 free Alexa Toolbar.

First released in 1997,repparttar 141422 Alexa Toolbar is known asrepparttar 141423 “B.S.” detector for Internet sites. With over 10 million users,repparttar 141424 toolbar tracks how people userepparttar 141425 Internet and turns this information into ranking statistics for each site onrepparttar 141426 Internet. For instance, Yahoo is ranked asrepparttar 141427 number one most visited site onrepparttar 141428 Internet.

So how do you use this tool? First, you downloadrepparttar 141429 Alexa Toolbar as follows:

1. Go to Alexa.com.

2. Click “Download Alexa Toolbar” atrepparttar 141430 top ofrepparttar 141431 page.

3. Click “Install” onrepparttar 141432 next page.

Reloadrepparttar 141433 page you are viewing andrepparttar 141434 toolbar will appear acrossrepparttar 141435 top of your browser. The tool provides you with valuable information regarding any site you are looking at, including your own. It tells yourepparttar 141436 traffic ranking ofrepparttar 141437 site compared to all sites onrepparttar 141438 Internet. The tool also provides you specific traffic information forrepparttar 141439 site and lays out sites that are similar torepparttar 141440 one on your screen. Instead of making baseless assumptions regarding how “good” a site is or whether it is successful, you can userepparttar 141441 Alexa statistics to get a better idea. If any company approaches you claiming they have a lot of traffic, you can just pull up their site and reviewrepparttar 141442 Alexa statistics. This allows you to verify who is receiving a significant amount of traffic and who is feeding you a line of “B.S.”

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