Reasons for traffic injuries and fatalities. Parts of the world, yet it remains one of the prime The influence of alcohol or drugs is illegal in large As obvious a problem is intoxication. Driving under.Ubiquitous and one of the most common reasons for Place in most western countries, yet speeding is still Have expanded our scope to also focus on human behaviour. Realizing that technology alone will not get us there, we Zero' that we will address striving for our Safety Vision. Specifically, our safety experts have identified three 'gaps to Obstacles on the road to zero fatalities in our cars. While we have come a long way, there are still a few We also actively share the knowledge we gather, to the benefit of society as a whole. The insights we gain allow us to constantly develop new, world-first safety technologies and be obe of the industry leaders. We are continually working on technology to make future vehicles safer still. This is the latest move in the framework of the companys Vision 2020 strategy, which aims to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities aboard a new Volvo. We study them by running countless computer simulations, as well as physical crash tests at our state-of-the-art Volvo Cars Safety Centre. Our cars are packed with advanced features that will help us achieve Vision 2020. We constantly collect and analyse accident data: our database contains information on tens of thousands of real-world accidents. In recent years, with the advance of cameras and sensors, we have added active safety features like the City Safety with Autobrake technology, which helps avoiding and mitigating accidents inside and outside the city.Īll these and other safety technologies are the result of our data- and science-driven approach to technology development. Our cars are packed with advanced passive safety features, such as airbags, safety cages and crumple zones. The brand vision of Volvo Cars to ensure nobody is killed or seriously injured in, or by, one of its new cars by 2020 has already made a major impact on. The most famous invention is the three-point safety belt introduced in 1959, estimated to have saved over a million lives since. Since our foundation in 1927, we have invented some of the most important breakthroughs in car safety. While we are proud of what we have achieved so far, we are not satisfied yet. The fact that everything we do starts with protecting the people inside and around our cars. It is rooted in our leadership in safety and The rotating tunnel can also reverse and shoot a car outside, into the rock face or the pond behind the center.Our Safety Vision is one of the most ambitious safety visions in the automotive industry. The Gothenburg complex’s moveable crash block and two 150-meter tunnels, including the only rotating test tunnel in the industry, allow Volvo to simulate everything from a head-on smash into a bus stop to a 90-degree vehicle-to-vehicle impact. To match feature VOLVO-SAFETY/ REUTERS/Bob Strong (SWEDEN) Bob Strong / X01138 It was all part of Volvo's bid to create an injury-proof car by 2020. Reducing the number of people that die or are seriously injured in road traffic accidents to zero is a bold target that we aim to achieve. Reducing the number of people that die or are seriously injured in road traffic accidents to zero is a bold target that we aim to achieve. The destruction of the orange sedan with its slapdash paintwork may have been intentional but it was far from wanton. Hampus Olsson, an analysis engineer, checks a test dummy before a crash at the Volvo Safety Centre in Gothenburg April 9, 2008. Protecting and caring for people is at the heart of Volvo Cars philosophy and Vision 2020 is our commitment to saving lives. Which brings us back to the orange sedan, its nose crushed pug-small after powering down a tunnel at 35 miles an hour into an 850-tonne steel-encased block, at what analysts say is one of the most advanced crash-test centers in the world. Borrowing principles from industries like aviation, the matrix of systems Volvo and other carmakers are working on will interact to start crash prevention and mitigation hours, rather than milliseconds, before impact.
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