The all-new Kia Sorento is the carmaker’s first ever model to feature an innovative Multi-Collision Braking system (MCB), tasked with automatically applying the brakes even after the vehicle’s airbags have been deployed.
Its role is to prevent you from getting into a secondary collision, which can sometimes happen depending on the circumstances. Kia will roll out MCB onto other models in the coming year.
The system is only activated once the airbags are already deployed, which makes sense since their very deployment points to a certain severity of the hit. Once activated, MCB measures vehicle speed and changes of direction, applying the appropriate level of braking force. It even checks if the driver is attempting to accelerate or brake.
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It’s important to point out that the system doesn’t work at speeds exceeding 110 mph (177 km/h). Kia says that “brake intervention at high speeds can cause other severe impacts.”
However, its usefulness has already been acknowledged by Euro NCAP, as “empirical testing of the system has indicated that a car with MCB showed an eight per cent decrease in fatalities and a four per cent decrease in severe injuries compared to the same car without MCB.”
MCB will be fitted as standard to all Sorento models, including the new Plug-in Hybrid variant, which is due to launch in Europe early next year.
The fourth-gen Kia Sorento already packs a wide range of clever new collision mitigation technologies, including the carmaker’s latest Forward Collision-avoidance Assist (FCA) with pedestrian, cyclist and vehicle detection.
