Volvo has set an ambitious safety goal: No motorist will die in a Volvo crash after 2020. As a first step, the manufacturer is unveiling a low-speed braking system next year. Called City Safety, the system is designed to reduce collisions at less than 18 mph by automatically applying the brakes if the driver does not react.
Volvo’s safety engineers also are collaborating with university researchers around the world to find new ways of safeguarding drivers and passengers in Volvo cars. One such project was inspired by swarming locusts, which travel in huge groups without colliding with one another. Finding the secret of the insect collision avoidance system could lead Volvo engineers to design cars that can’t crash.
Link to story in San Francisco Chronicle.
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