Engineers across the Ford Motor Company brands are creating technologies to help drivers avoid accidents and help protect occupants during a collision. Ford's state-of-the-art safety testing facility in Dearborn, Michigan, known as the Safety Innovation Laboratory, is helping to drive these innovations. The laboratory is part of a $65 million investment in advanced vehicle testing technology that is expected to deliver faster, more accurate and more efficient testing, in order to accelerate the introduction of new safety technologies to the marketplace. Some examples of these exciting new technologies are described in this section.
New Safety Certification Test lab