Volvo introduces a pioneering
preventive safety technology in 2008 called City Safety. This Volvo world-first
technology was introduced as standard with the Volvo XC60 which helped reduced
risk of rear-end collisions between a car and a Volvo.
Studies showed that 75 percent of all
reported collisions take place at speeds of up to 30kph. In half of these cases
the driver has not braked at all before the collision, mainly due to
distraction. In these cases, City Safety could make a crucial difference. The
Volvo City Safety System helps in completely avoiding collisions at low speed
or at least substantially mitigating the consequences. City Safety works with a
laser sensor in the upper portion of the windscreen. If the system establishes
that there is a danger of collision when the car in front performs a sudden
braking maneuver or because of a stationary vehicle, the car's own brake system
swings into action. If the driver fails to respond to the danger situation,
emergency braking is automatically initiated with a deceleration between 50 and
100 percent of the available brake friction force.
In 2011, the benefits of the City
Safety technology were documented in another IIHS (Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety) report quoting a reduction of the collision frequency by up to
22 percent. Insurance claims involving the Volvo XC60 show that City Safety
reduces the cost of personal injury claims by 51 percent - while vehicle repair
costs were lowered by more than 20 percent.
This system is now further upgraded
to be active on speeds up to 35kph. In situations where the difference in speed
between the two vehicles is 15kp or less, a collision can be completely avoided.
In a potential collision situation in which the difference in speed between the
vehicles is between 15-30kph, the consequences of the impending collision can
be considerably reduced because the system will intervene to reduce speed
before the collision occurs
Designed to give you more miles of
peace of mind, the City Safety is fitted as standard in the locally available
variants of the Volvo XC60, Volvo S60 and Volvo V60.
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