Safety First: Why the 2024 Chevy Malibu Advanced Safety Features Are Important to You
Advanced safety features usually get glossed over whenever someone shops for a car because other features, like comfort, convenience, infotainment, or performance, might seem more important. But do you know what those safety features mean for you and how they improve the value and functionality of your vehicle? If the 2024 Chevy Malibu has been on your radar and safety features are important to you (or maybe you don’t think they’re that important, but you might need some convincing as to why), we can help you.
Safety is paramount, and some of the more advanced features of the Chevy Malibu provide consistency, stability, and accessibility on the road, making the vehicle’s complex safety technology invisible to you as you drive. We’ll dive into that with this article, which may help you better understand how this tech works. More importantly, we can help define how this tech helps you and why it’s important for people shopping for a midsize sedan like the 2024 Chevy Malibu.
Chevy Safety Assist: What Is It and Why Is It Important to The Malibu?
The Chevy Safety Assist is a suite of built-in safety features that come standard with every trim of the 2024 Chevy Malibu. Chevy Safety Assist consists of six leading safety assists to help drivers, with active safety sensors that can help keep you on the road and make it easier to enjoy the ride.
The six assists include Automatic Emergency Braking, Front Pedestrian Braking, Lane Keep Assist With Lane Departure Warning, Forward Collision Alert, Following Distance Indicator, and IntelliBeam automatic high beams. These six different assists help you avoid collisions automatically and actively. Thanks to multiple sensors around the vehicle, detecting nearby objects and helping aid drivers with active assists like automatically applying the brakes when pedestrians are detected. The lane centering also helps via the power steering to keep you from drifting out of the lane, while the lane departure warnings alert the driver when you drift too far out of the lane.
The Advanced Safety Features of the 2024 Chevy Malibu
The Chevy Malibu has more than just the standard Chevy Safety Assist as its basis for keeping drivers safe. There are also additional safety features available that help further increase the protection efforts to keep you on the road. Some more advanced features include the availability of driving aids like adaptive cruise control, which automatically keeps pace with the vehicle ahead of the Malibu, based on a driver-selected following gap. This feature gives you an adaptive following experience with cruise control while utilizing the Chevy Safety Assist’s lane centering and departure systems to ensure that you stay centered while using adaptive cruise control.
The Malibu’s other advanced safety features available for the 2024 model year include highly regarded features like rear cross-traffic alert and blind spot monitoring. These features alert you to objects or other vehicles behind the Malibu that might be in your blind spot. This gives you that heads-up if you’re coming out of a parking lot, backing into a parking space, or there’s another object too close to the rear of the Malibu. This ties in perfectly with the automatic parking assist, which can help you park perfectly thanks to the sensors working hand in hand with the Chevrolet Infotainment System. They visualize the vehicle and its position to show you how to aid it into a parking spot.
The automatic parking assist utilizes the electronically controlled power steering to automatically put you into position and then guide you into the parking space, using the electronically controlled braking to do so. The best part about the automatic parking assist is that it can take control of the vehicle and do all the parking work for you. This safety measure ensures that you don’t have to worry about clipping another vehicle while parking or accidentally getting out of alignment while pulling into or out of a space.
Buckle to Drive and Teen Driver Mode
Buckle to Drive and Teen Driver mode are another set of advanced safety features for the 2024 Chevy Malibu. Buckle to Drive is a neat feature that ensures appropriate safety measures are in place before leaving the driveway. As part of the Teen Driver mode, Buckle to Drive ensures front passengers have their seatbelts fastened before shifting out of the park or accessing certain infotainment features. This mode ensures that teens don’t turn on the radio, put on their favorite pop-music playlist, and then leave to go to a friend’s house before buckling up.
However, the Teen Driver mode is more than just about seat-buckle reminders. The mode gives parents a full report on the driving habits of their teen drivers. Utilizing the vehicle’s driver assistance and sensors helps keep the teen driving the Malibu safe and capable of avoiding collisions. It also tracks how often certain driver aids and safety assists are used during their travels. Teen Driver mode allows parents to review a digital report card made available through the infotainment system.
Combining features like automatic emergency braking, parking assistance, lane centering, and lane departure alerts with a reporting system that tracks how often teens use these while driving gives parents an idea of how often the automated systems had to kick in to help prevent a collision, reduce an accident, or keep the vehicle stable. This report doesn’t mean that the teen is a terrible driver, but it does offer statistical driving insight where there could be room for improvement. The Malibu’s safety system provides guidance and sensor-based feedback on how often you use particular driving assists. It also enables parents and teens to correct their driving habits as needed.
Connected Access and Remote Access
Safety isn’t just about the active and passive systems, like the ten-airbag system or the lower anchors and tether system for kids known as LATCH. Safety measures related to the built-in connected services with the OnStar and Chevrolet Connected Services suite are also available. With the network connection, you can use the OnStar services to help with navigation and accessing emergency services, so in case there is an accident, you can quickly contact emergency services for aid.
In addition to the roadside assistance features made available, connected apps enable you to receive vehicle health updates and alerts on your smartphone. These apps are helpful for those who want to remotely access the vehicle via their smart device, including locking and unlocking the car or being able to locate a stolen vehicle. These advanced safety features benefit those who want a safe vehicle while on the road and offer safety and security measures even when you’re outside.
Making the 2024 Malibu Your Preferred Safety Sedan
The safety measures present with the 2024 Chevy Malibu make it a worthwhile midsize sedan for commuters, starter drivers, and even families. It’s beneficial for those with budding drivers, thanks to the availability of Buckle to Drive and Teen Driver mode. Suppose you were investigating a sedan focused on safety features regarding passive, active, and connected features. In that case, the Malibu fulfills each of those roles quite well. Contact us at Jim Ellis Chevrolet if you want to learn more about the different safety features, advanced safety features, and connected safety features available with the 2024 Malibu if you’re interested in shopping for a midsize sedan.