The new A3 is one of the first cars in the compact class to offer no fewer than four safety systems which have received awards from the Euro-NCAP consortium:
Pre Sense Basic autonomously detects critical driving situations and initiates suitable actions to better protect occupants in a potential collision. They include reversible tensioning of the safety belts and closing of the car’s windows and the sunroof.
Audi Pre Sense front (pictured) informs the driver if the gap to the vehicle ahead in traffic drops below a safe distance. In addition, the system warns of critical situations, and if necessary it can automatically initiate emergency braking. This reduces the vehicle’s speed at the time of collision, and in the best case it can prevent an accident altogether.
If it is no longer possible to avoid a collision, the secondary collision brake assistant supports the driver with specific braking maneuvers during the accident sequence. This can prevent uncontrolled skidding of the car, which in turn helps to avoid further collisions.