You’re driving down a winding nation highway. It’s inconceivable to see past the highway in entrance of you. All of the sudden, your Volvo automobile alerts you: there’s been an accident forward. As you calmly decelerate and are available across the subsequent curve, you see a crashed automobile in your lane. Because of the warning, you had been ready and will react proactively.
With our new Accident Forward Alert, we introduce one other pioneering linked security characteristic in Volvo vehicles: for the primary time, vehicles can alert drivers of accidents forward instantly utilizing real-time information from a site visitors administration centre. Will probably be obtainable in appropriate Volvo vehicles in Europe, ranging from Denmark.
With the goal to assist drivers keep away from collisions and site visitors congestion attributable to an accident forward, the characteristic is designed to immediately alert the motive force a few site visitors accident up to a couple hundred metres forward. The placement information is supplied by nationwide highway authorities and appropriate vehicles, beginning with different Volvo vehicles.
“Utilizing our groundbreaking linked security expertise, our Accident Forward Alert can assist Volvo drivers keep away from disagreeable surprises, whereas contributing to creating roads safer for all,” says Åsa Haglund, head of Volvo Automobiles Security Centre. “Because of our collaboration with the Danish Street Directorate and different companions within the Knowledge for Street Security ecosystem, we are able to introduce this new characteristic and proceed our management in security improvements.”
Volvo Automobiles’ industry-first linked security expertise, which was launched in 2016, makes use of Volvo Automobiles’ cloud, based mostly on real-time information. It permits Volvo vehicles to speak with one another and alert drivers of close by slippery highway circumstances and hazards. In the identical manner, drivers can now be alerted to accidents forward whatever the time of the day.
Trying forward, we’re planning to combine extra site visitors information shared by different companions within the European Knowledge for Street Security ecosystem, together with nationwide site visitors administration centres in different nations and vehicles from different manufacturers.
To make roads safer for all, we name for extra highway authorities to share nameless site visitors accident information and encourage different automobile makers to hitch us in providing comparable applied sciences. For sure, Volvo Automobiles has been commited to sharing linked security information for others to combine into security options and can proceed doing so.
For Volvo automobile homeowners, it’s simple to contribute to highway security by choosing information sharing: merely activate it utilizing the “linked security” choice in your automobile’s centre show. The automobile will then be capable to alert the motive force of an accident forward by utilizing the hazard mild alert within the dashboard, and if obtainable, the head-up show. Relaxation assured that solely the important data will probably be shared with different vehicles and the information will probably be anonymised to make sure your privateness.
The Accident Forward Alert characteristic is presently obtainable in Denmark on all 90, 60 and 40 collection Volvo automobile fashions, from mannequin yr 2016 and onwards. Will probably be made obtainable on the identical automobile fashions in additional European markets quickly, the corporate mentioned in a press launch.
