The Top 7 Car Safety Features You Cannot Do Without Remember the days when safety features on a car amounted to anti-lock brakes, a few airbags, 3-point seatbelts and traction control? Those days are long gone. Today most buyers will not let go of their hard-earned cash unless the majority of the latest safety features are fitted to their new car. And rightly so, because results from America’s Insurance Institute for Highway Safety survey show that improved safety features dramatically lower road fatalities and the risk of injury. According to an IIHS survey of 2015, there were 7,700 fewer driver deaths in 2012 than there would have been had vehicles remained the same since 1985. So what are the main five safety features that most motorists cannot do without? After I’ve mentioned those features, I will also mention two new technologies that will join the can’t-do-without list of features in the next few years. Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Available on the vast major