Car submersion is terrifying and often fatal. We only have one minute to escape by breaking or lowering the side windows. All too often, valuable seconds are wasted on the wrong actions, such as using the cell phone for emergency calls.
The best advice is to perform your own rescue by getting out of the vehicle immediately. Tools can help to break the windows, such as the Resqme, but not all windows are breakable and human error continues to claim lives every year.
Many lives will be saved with a system that senses when a vehicle is in water and automatically opens the windows, giving passengers a chance to escape.
That system is AWOS.