Welcome to the third installment of Safety Saturday! Today we will be discussing another one of our Safety Shield 360 features, Lane Departure Warning. Lane Departure Warning provides a driver with both safety and convenience. It is “designed to help alert drivers to unintended movement of the vehicle out of its travel lane.” ?To put this into a real-world perspective, have you ever been driving and taken your eyes off of the road to turn your radio station? In just those few seconds, your vehicle may start to drift into the other lane or on the shoulder. With Lane Departure Warning, the system will alert you with a chime or a vibration of the steering wheel to let you know that you are moving out of your traveling lane. This vibration or chime is intended to get your attention fast so you can put your vehicle back into your traveling path. This feature is just a warning and will not take over to keep your vehicle in the lane.
The system that operates this feature is more complicated than the one for High Beam Assist. It uses a combination of a “small wide-angle camera, advanced image processing, speed sensor, and control unit” to detect a lane departure.? This feature only works if the lines for the traffic lane can be clearly seen and the vehicle is traveling more than 37 miles per hour. You may also be thinking to yourself that this feature is going to eventually get annoying by going off every time you enter a turn lane. To overcome this, Lane Departure Warning will not operate if the turn signal is activated. So, as long as you use your turn signal to move from lane to lane you will not have to deal with the chime or vibrating steering wheel.
Purchasing a new 2023 Nissan here at your local Dothan Nissan dealership, equipped with this feature, will make you a more confident driver. One of the goals that Nissan has set out to accomplish is to make all drivers confident on the road, and Lane Departure Warning is just one more step in completing that mission.
?"Tech Notes: Lane Departure Warning." Nissan Virtual Academy, lms.nnanet.com/VA3/Pages/ArticlePg.aspx?vw=NNA2100001&path=/content/system_simulatons/en/ArticleCertification/Tech-Notes-Lane-Departure-Warning-0519N&ext=.html. Accessed 1 March. 2023.
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