Seriously.
"If you accommodated Swedish engineers, they're appealing genuine," said Lex Kerssemakers, CEO of Volvo Cars North America. "They don't say things if they don't accept in it."
There is one big caveat. If anyone absolutely wants to aching themselves, or is just really, absolutely stupid... well, Volvo can't do annihilation about that. But, bold you're not a baleful bedlamite or a absolute idiot, in four years, you'll be safer active a new Volvo than you are aggressive a ladder to spiral in a ablaze bulb.
Fatality-free cars are not unprecedented. In fact, there already are some, and they're not just Volvos. According to abstracts from the Insurance Institute for Artery Safety, there are nine car models -- including the Volvo XC90 -- in which no one in the United States died in the four years from 2009 to 2012, the a lot of contempo aeon for which abstracts is available.
Volvo, still based in Sweden but now endemic by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (GELYY), wants to accomplish this the case for its absolute car band up throughout the world. The automaker already advance how abounding humans die in its cars in adjustment to adviser safety. That way, engineers can acquaint how abundant safer their cars become anniversary time they cycle out a new crash-prevention technology. That aswell helps Volvo adumbrate how abundant safer its cars will be with anniversary new advancement.Ultimately, all these new technologies will be angry to calm to actualize a car that can, literally, drive itself. In fact, a amount of automakers, not not just Volvo, accept promised to advertise free cars by 2020.
"With the development of abounding freedom we are traveling to advance the banned of automotive safety," said Volvo assurance architect Erik Coelingh, "because if you accomplish a absolutely free car you accept to anticipate through aggregate that potentially can appear with a car."
That doesn't beggarly that drivers will necessarily accept to use the car's free active approach in adjustment to be safe, though. Even if the disciplinarian is in abounding ascendancy of the car, these systems will still run in the background, accessible to yield over the burning there's danger.
Most of the technology that's appropriate for free active is already accessible from Volvo and added carmakers. Here's a attending at the appearance that, if accumulated all calm in one vehicle, will about accomplish it crashproof.
Adaptive Cruise Control: Adaptive cruise control, which is already accessible on abounding new cars, uses alarm and sometimes added sensors to ascertain cars on the alley ahead. You set a best acceleration and afresh your car maintains a safe afterward ambit on its own, operating the gas and the brakes for you. Some systems like this alone plan at artery canoeing speeds, but abounding can plan even in alternate traffic.
Auto lane befitting assist: Cameras ascertain lane curve and alley edges, and the car steers itself to break in its lane.
Collision avoidance: Radar, cameras or added sensors ascertain obstacles advanced and acquaint the driver. If the disciplinarian still doesn't react, the car can administer the brakes automatically to avoid, or at atomic reduce, the appulse of a crash. In the United States, auto assurance regulators accept begin this technology decidedly able in abbreviation crashes.
Pedestrian detection: Cameras, including ones that can see in the dark, are programmed to ascertain beastly forms that ability aberrate into the aisle of the car. Drivers can be alerted and again, the car can anchor automatically.
Large beastly detection: Hitting a moose, deer or elk is absolutely bad for the beastly but it's aswell actual bad for a car's passengers. Volvo has created a arrangement that can ascertain if a big beastly is walking in foreground of your car, extenuative both you and the absent animal.
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