Unlocking a New Level of Driver Confidence: The Top 10 Safety Features of the GLC 300

If you are looking for one of the safest SUVs on the road today, you might want to find a Mercedes-Benz GLC for sale. Earning a Top Safety Pick rating in 2024 from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, this model takes the honor of being a family-oriented SUV that balances luxury and innovation with cutting-edge safety features. The GLC showcases the brand's century-long dedication to driver safety, from its high-strength build to the many active and passive safety features that enhance your safety behind the wheel. Here's a closer look at those features, how they work, and why they matter. 

#1 - 4MATIC® All-Wheel Drive

The 2025 GLC is available with the Mercedes-Benz 4MATIC® all-wheel drive system, which we consider a performance-related safety feature. Why? The GLC's all-wheel drive system continuously optimizes traction by controlling torque delivery at each wheel. However, it doesn't work alone. It also works with the Electronic Stability Program and Torque Vectoring Brake system. Beyond providing all-season confidence with traction control, the GLC offers enhanced handling via Torque Vectoring Brake technology that distributes the ideal amount of power and braking to improve your control when cornering. Together, these systems work behind the scenes, offering all-season and all-terrain confidence by enhancing the GLC's performance and stability.

#2 - PRE-SAFE® Sound and PRE-SAFE® PLUS

Mercedes-Benz is at the forefront of innovation in the industry, and technologies like PRE-SAFE® showcase as much. The 2025 GLC introduces the PRE-SAFE® system, which includes PRE-SAFE®, PRE-SAFE® Sound, and PRE-SAFE® PLUS. But what makes the system revolutionary?

PRE-SAFE® monitors the vehicle's stability to determine if a collision or rollover is imminent. If it detects potential danger, the system takes immediate action to prioritize your safety. It tightens the seatbelts, closes the windows, shuts the sunroof, and adjusts the front passenger seat. PRE-SAFE® Sound plays pink noise to protect your hearing, while PRE-SAFE® PLUS is an enhanced version that provides rear-end monitoring. This advanced system will also engage the brakes to mitigate the potential for a secondary collision.

#3 - Active Brake Assist and Adaptive Braking Technology

The GLC's advanced braking technologies are partly responsible for the SUV's high safety ratings. Active Brake Assist is a standard feature that provides automatic emergency braking by alerting you to potential collisions and applying the brakes if you fail to respond. The advanced version of this technology is Active Brake Assist with Turning and Cross-Traffic Function. This feature is designed for in-town driving and assists with navigating intersections and areas with heavy pedestrian traffic.

Automatic emergency braking is an industry-wide standard, but Mercedes-Benz goes above and beyond with the GLC's adaptive braking technology. This suite of braking technologies enhances the GLC's stopping power based on the situation and your input on the accelerator and brake pedals. For example, Automatic Brake Drying periodically applies the brakes when it's raining to mitigate water build-up on the discs. Predictive Brake Priming moves the brake pads closer to the discs for heightened responsiveness when you quickly lift your foot off the accelerator.

#4 - Advanced LED Lighting

The GLC's LED exterior lights are engineered to offer the best visibility in any condition. Mercedes-Benz equips the newest GLC with LED headlamps, taillights, and daytime running lamps. LED lights last longer, with Mercedes-Benz opting for a multi-element LED that provides daylight-like visibility long after sunset. This visibility is further enhanced with the GLC's Adaptive Highbeam Assist feature, which automatically activates the high beams based on the conditions. If the system detects oncoming traffic, the lights will dim and reactivate once traffic passes.

#5 - Blind Spot Assist With Exit Warning Assist

The Mercedes-Benz GLC acts as a virtual spotter dedicated to enhancing your situational awareness by monitoring everything around your vehicle. Blind Spot Assist with Exit Warning Assist is integral to this monitoring and does double duty when traveling at high speeds or when parked. The Blind Spot Assist component monitors traffic to the sides of the GLC, making it easier and safer to change lanes. Once the GLC is parked, Exit Warning Assist relies on blind-spot technology to help you and your passengers exit safely without fear of opening your door into traffic or hitting a pedestrian.

#6 - PARKTRONIC With Active Parking Assist

What part of driving do you enjoy? What part do you dread the most? Cruising at highway speeds or maneuvering on a winding backroad is fun, but parking an SUV is far from it, especially if it's a parallel space downtown or in a congested area. Fortunately, Mercedes-Benz has an excellent solution with the GLC's PARKTRONIC with Active Parking Assist.

Active Parking Assist is standard on the 2025 GLC, another advantage the SUV has over rivals. The technology transforms your parking experience by reducing your role in the process. It actively searches for a parking space and can navigate the GLC into and out of the space by shifting gears, accelerating, and braking automatically. The GLC's PARKTRONIC sensors also play a significant role by monitoring nearby obstacles to make navigating tight or congested areas easier.

#7 - ATTENTION ASSIST®

Your focus in the driver's seat is paramount to everyone's safety, from yours to your passengers and other drivers on the road. The GLC's ATTENTION ASSIST® technology acknowledges as much and is a revolutionary tool engineered to enhance your attention and focus. The system features enhanced sensitivity on models like the 2025 GLC, monitoring up to 70 facets of your driving behavior. This monitoring can detect when you're getting drowsy, alerting you that it's time to take a break with visual and audible warnings to mitigate the potential for hazardous driving conditions.

#8 - Mercedes-Benz Emergency Call Service

Your adrenaline skyrockets after a collision and many drivers are faced with tunnel vision as they evaluate what happened and the impact it had on their safety and well-being. Mercedes-Benz recognizes the severity of any collision and the accompanying stress by equipping the GLC with Mercedes-Benz Emergency Call Service. The technology is accessible in two ways: via an SOS button near the driver's seat or automatically when an airbag deploys. In either situation, the system sends your location and vehicle information to Mercedes-Benz Emergency Services, where trained experts relay that information to local emergency personnel. This ensures help is on the way, with the service center open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

#9 - Active Driving Assist Technologies

Depending on the trim and package, the GLC offers many enhanced safety technologies that Mercedes-Benz distinguishes as "Active." For example, the GLC's Blind Spot Assist with Exit Warning Assist is a standard feature in 2025, but Active Blind Spot Assist is an upgrade that is part of the Driver Assistance Package. The enhanced technology goes beyond alerting you to traffic in your blind spots and will guide the GLC back into its original lane if you start changing lanes when there is a car in your blind spot.

#10 - DISTRONIC® Adaptive Cruise Control

The GLC's safety features extend to cruising technologies engineered to enhance your experience at highway speeds. Cruise control mitigates driver fatigue, but the GLC's enhanced DISTRONIC® Adaptive Cruise Control and Active Lane Change Assist go a step further. The DISTRONIC® system relies on radar to adjust the GLC's speed according to the flow of traffic, whether cruising at 70 mph or sitting in stop-and-go traffic. Active Lane Change Assist expands on this by navigating lane changes automatically when you activate your turn signal. The system will look for a gap in the traffic beside you and only change lanes when it is safe to do so.