Safer Vehicles Save Lives

Vehicle safety features are so important that if everyone drove a five-star safety rated vehicle, road trauma could be reduced by up to half.

In this lesson, students are introduced to different types of vehicle safety features. They explore how safety features can help avoid crashes or protect road users who are involved in a crash, and then consider which features they’d like to see in vehicles of the future, and why.

This activity supports:

• The values and needs of contemporary society can influence the focus of scientific research (VCSSU116)
• The description and explanation of the motion of objects involves the interaction of forces and the exchange of energy and can be described and predicted using the laws of physics (VCSSU133)

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