Top 10 Family-Friendly Car Upgrades

Today car industry has to make its products as family friendly as possible to please modern parents. As it takes a lot to comfort and keep children protected during ever-lasting traffic jam trips. There is a list of the most popular family-friendly car features.

1. Transformable Second Row

Honda tops our list as the 2011 Odyssey could easily transform second-row seats into a bench seat that will easily hold three child-safety seats. If you want to have adults riding on these seats, you can just draw them apart to avail three individual seats, thus, making some additional shoulder room.

2. 180-degree View Cameras

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposal, all cars should have a 180-degree view around the car by the year of 2014. It will make backup cameras a must-have on new cars. Backup cameras help oversee what’s going on around the car and are particularly useful for the safety of lives of 5 year-old and younger children.

3. Backseat Belt Control

Some automakers — Cadillac and Jaguar – insure parents to take care over the children that are in the backseat. With the help of a small icon in a car's instrument panel parents can control who's buckled up in the backseat and who’s not. This is especially actual if there is a hyperactive child who is capable of quietly unbuckling and escaping from his seat belt.

4. Enlarging Seat Belt

All new 2011 Ford Explorer creators have applied a lot of effects to protect their customers. They have invented optional seat belts that look like traditional ones, but in order to evenly allocate crash forces upon a crash, they inflate and, thus, reduce the chances of an intense localized strike on the passenger's chest.

5. Power Sliding Doors

Minivan Power Sliding Doors make it easy for kids to just push a special button in order to get in and out of the car by themselves. Another advantage is that it dissolves any possibility for your passionate child to damage other autos in a car park.

6. Airy Third Row

You don’t have to be a weightlifter if you are the owner of the 2011 Toyota Sienna as it is as easy as ABC to fold the third row into the floor. No more muscles and nerves spending with a power-folding third row that really is convenient and does help economize efforts and precious time.

7. Kid Untroubled Sleep

The retractable window shades will ensure the untroubled aftermarket sleep of your fidgets. The calm and peaceful environment will give the rest of the family to take the breath.

8. Ford's Remote Control Trick

Ford owners have the possibility to limit the maximum speed and radio volume in their car when it’s driven by their almost grown-up teen kids, even if being far away from the cars. There is a specifically programmed key to turn the parents of teen drivers into gentle spies. This car also allows caring parents to block some satellite radio stations that they consider offensive.

9. Disappearing Bin Ring

The 2011 Honda Odyssey minivan has been a real finding for family men. Another feature for the house-prouds is a trash bin ring in the second row that can be used for holding a plastic grocery store bag. As impossible as it may seem the second row's trash bin ring can be folded down anytime.

10. Comfortable Latch System

How often do you find yourself annoyed with the situation when you can’t find the lower Latch anchors at once? In the 2011 Mercedes-Benz E350 wagon, 2010 Chevy Traverse and 2011 Toyota Avalon this is not the case. An easy-to-use Latch system is something that is not found in every car and that is a pleasant benefit when in place.