In the above video, Volvo details some of the technologies it is developing in its quest toward accident-free driving. This video not only lays out Volvo's strategy, but mirrors the work other automakers are doing that will eventually result in autonomous cars.
The video begins with Thomas Broberg, Volvo's senior safety adviser, outlining six technologies that Volvo has deployed or is developing.
- Pedestrian detection in darkness
- Animal detection
- Road edge and barrier detection
- Vehicle-to-vehicle communication
- Self parking
- Adaptive cruise control with steer assist
Pedestrian and animal detection have been deployed as part of Volvo's City Safety System, which comes standard in the S60, XC60, XC70, and S80 models. This system automatically slams on the brakes if it calculates that a collision is imminent, and can completely prevent collisions if the car is moving at under 19 mph. Volvo boasts in a separate press release that it has already sold more than a million cars with some sort of autobraking function.
Subaru recently deployed a similar system in its Outback and Forester models.
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