2018 Volvo XC60 Safety Features Demo

Volvo Cars’ new XC60 SUV will automatically steer you out of trouble
Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has announced that the new XC60 SUV – which will be revealed at the Geneva
Motor Show – will feature three new advanced driver assistance features aimed at keeping the driver out of trouble.
The new safety features are designed to provide the driver with automatic steering assistance or support – when
required – to help avoid potential collisions. Volvo believes that these new features will make the new XC60 one of
the safest cars on the road.
“We have been working with collision avoidance systems for many years and we can see how effective they are. In
Sweden alone we have seen a decline of around 45 percent* in rearend
frontal crashes thanks to our collision
warning with autobrake system. With the XC60 we are determined to take the next step in reducing avoidable
collisions with the addition of steering support and assistance systems,” said Malin Ekholm, Senior Director, Volvo
Cars’ Safety Centre.
City Safety has been updated in the XC60 to include steering support, which engages when automatic braking
alone would not help avoid a potential collision. In such circumstances, the car will provide steering assistance to
avoid the obstacle ahead. City Safety helps to avoid collisions with vehicles, pedestrians and large animals.
Steering support is active between 50100
km/h.
Volvo Cars has also added a system called Oncoming Lane Mitigation, which helps drivers to avoid collisions with
vehicles in an oncoming lane.
The system works by alerting a driver who has unwittingly wandered out of a driving lane by providing automatic
steering assistance, guiding them back into their own lane and out of the path of any oncoming vehicle. This
system is active between 60140
km/h.
“All three of these new features represent clear steps in our work towards fully autonomous cars,” added Malin
Ekholm.
Volvo Cars’ optional Blind Spot Information System, which alerts drivers to the presence of vehicles in their blind
spot, has also received an update to include steer assist functionality that helps to avoid potential collisions with
vehicles in a blind spot by steering the car back into its own lane and away from danger.
“We have all of the benefits of the safety technology we introduced in our larger 90 Series cars in the new XC60.
This is fully inline
with our strategic approach to develop automotive safety systems based on reallife,
realroad
safety. Our vision is that no one will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car by the year 2020,” added Malin
Ekholm.
The XC60 will deliver a host of highend
safety systems, just like its larger 90 Series siblings, including Large
Animal Detection, Runoff
Road Mitigation and the semiautonomous
driver support and convenience system Pilot
Assist as an option.