Not crashing in a Volvo XC60
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The Volvo XC60 comes standard with the City Safety feature.
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Although a car crash perks up everyone’s attention, we got to experience the opposite in the non-crashing Volvo XC60. The folks at Volvo want everyone to know about the XC60’s new City Safety feature, and they are hosting demonstrations around the country.
The XC60 stops itself a few feet short of the pylons.
(Credit: CBS Interactive)
We stopped by one of the demonstrations locations, a Volvo dealership in San Francisco, to try it out. Check the XC60 site to see if Volvo is holding a demonstration in your area.
City Safety is a standard feature on the XC60, a new Volvo model coming to dealerships in March. Operating at speeds below 20 mph, it will stop the car if it senses an impending accident. The system has a forward-facing laser that can detect objects in the car’s path. If the car senses a collision, and the driver isn’t hitting the brakes or turning the wheel, it will apply full force to the brakes, bringing the car to a full stop.
The system is designed to stop low-speed collisions in heavy traffic or city driving. For speeds of 20 mph and above, the XC60 can be had with the radar-based pre-collision system, which also controls adaptive cruise control. Volvo says that 75 percent of collisions happen at low speeds, so the City Safety system should make insurance companies happy.
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Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
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