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Many cars today come equipped with advanced safety features that are designed to reduce the chance of sustaining injuries while traveling.  Safety features that are aimed at preventing motorist injury can range from a simple seatbelt to antilock brakes to forward crash avoidance systems and rear-view cameras. The advancements in safety devices over the past several decades have both helped to reduce crashes and have made it possible for more motorists to survive when crashes do occur.

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If you have a problem with your vehicle, you need to understand the laws that will protect you. A Los Angeles lemon law attorney can provide you with insight into how the lemon law works if you have problems with your car. You should also know how the process works for mandated recalls when a manufacturer releases many cars with defects and the cars all have to be recalled to fix the safety problem.

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Every year, car commercials abound during the end-of-year festive season. NY Daily News did a roundup of the best and worst of these holiday ads, all of which were designed to convince people to buy cars as holiday gifts. Many of the ads were by luxury car makers, and they showed off the vehicles with perfect large red bows in the driveway and touted vehicle safety features. Unfortunately, this rosy picture ignores the record numbers of vehicle recalls in recent years and that many cars can end up having serious safety problems.

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Today, many cars come equipped with infotainment systems and/or Internet-equipped devices. Cars have a wide variety of different features that are dependent upon access to the Internet and many consumers opt to get their cars connected so they can be tied into the worldwide web even while driving.

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Car manufacturers are not always honest.  There has been ample evidence in recent years of car makers hiding vehicle defects from regulators and the public, thus putting lives at risk. There have also been a record number of recalls in the past few years, often as news of the hidden problems finally came to light. Sometimes, these recalls didn't come until after people had been killed and cars had been on the road for decades.

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Buying a new car is a stressful experience, as you have to spend a lot of money to get a new vehicle. There is little or no pricing transparency in the car buying industry, which can leave you uncertain as to how much you will end up paying or whether you got a good deal or not.  There is also a very real concern your car will be defective, especially in light of record numbers of vehicle recalls over the course of the last several years.

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Volkswagen has been having a run of bad luck lately that has cost the car maker big time. Volkswagen's best known issue in recent months has been the problems with the car company's vehicles being rigged in order to perform better in emissions testing than the cars do on the road. The cars could detect when hooked up to an emissions testing machine and the vehicles performed differently than the cars would on the road under normal use. This led to an artificially low emissions rating. The problem prompted government action against VW and VW also eventually had to reach a settlement with angry consumers.

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Car buying scams happen all the time. In many cases, it is really difficult to get your money back if you make an investment in buying a vehicle and the seller turns out to be a scam artist. You want to watch for red flags and find problems before the unscrupulous dealer has your money so you can better avoid financial loss. 

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