A
t last week's Los Angeles Auto
Show, Ford revealed its newly
engineered Ford Escape SUV
— a vehicle with even more driver-assist
technologies to help enable safer and
easier driving, new mobile connectiv-
ity that allows owners to interact with
their vehicle from anywhere through a
smartphone app and two new efficient
EcoBoost engines.
The new Escape is the first Ford
vehicle in the world with available SYNC
Connect, allowing users to unlock doors,
check fuel level and even locate where a
vehicle is parked.
To help drivers feel more confident
behind the wheel, driver-assist technolo-
gies available for the new Escape include
adaptive cruise control and forward colli-
sion warning with brake support, a lane-
keeping system and enhanced active park
assist. That's all packed in a vehicle that
has been redesigned from the inside out,
including a driver and front passenger
area upgraded with more storage space
and mobile device charge ports.
"The compact SUV segment is the larg-
est and most competitive in the United
States, and the new Escape delivers even
more of what our customers want —
more technology they can really use to
make their daily drive safer and easier:'
said Joe Hinrichs, Ford president, The
Americas.
Need to lock your new Escape from
across town? There is an app for that.
With SYNC Connect, owners can
remotely start their vehicle and schedule
future starts, as well as lock and unlock
their Escape using their smartphones. The
technology provides vehicle location, as
well as key vehicle information such as
tire pressures, battery and fuel levels.
SYNC Connect, available with SYNC 3
for the new Escape, comes with compli-
mentary activation for five years. A user
enables the system through a two-step
authentication process designed to protect
personal information. SYNC 3 features
faster performance, conversational voice
recognition, intuitive smartphone-like
touch screen and easier-to-understand
graphical interface.
Other driver-assist features available
help make the daily commute safer and
easier for drivers of the new Ford Escape:
• Adaptive cruise control and forward
collision warning with brake support:
Sensors detect when Escape is approach-
ing a slow-moving vehicle and adjust
cruise control accordingly.
• Enhanced active park assist:
Provides steering assistance to park the
vehicle in a parallel or reverse perpendic-
ular parking spot and pull out from tight
parallel parking spots; driver controls
brake, accelerator and shifter. Technology
includes side park distance control.
• Lane-keeping system: The system
includes lane-keeping alert, which alerts
drivers when they drift unintentionally
from their lane, and lane-keeping aid,
which provides steering assistance to
guide an unintentionally drifting vehicle
back into its lane.
• Driver Alert System: Using data from
the lane-keeping system, the Driver Alert
System can detect signs of fatigued driv-
ing and provide a warning on the instru-
ment cluster.
Escape remains one of the most
popular small SUVs on the market. Since
its launch in 2000, more than 3 mil-
lion units have been sold in the United
States, including a record 306,212 Escape
vehicles in North America in 2014. Ford
expects Escape sales this year will exceed
that figure. *
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