You’re driving down a winding nation highway. It’s unimaginable to see past the highway in entrance of you. Suddenly, 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. Thanks to the warning, you had been ready and will react proactively.
With our new Accident Ahead Alert, we introduce one other pioneering linked security characteristic in Volvo automobiles: for the primary time, automobiles can alert drivers of accidents forward straight utilizing real-time knowledge from a visitors administration centre. It can be accessible in appropriate Volvo automobiles in Europe, beginning in Denmark.
With the purpose to assist drivers keep away from collisions and visitors congestion attributable to an accident forward, the characteristic is designed to immediately alert the driving force a couple of visitors accident up to a couple hundred metres forward. The location knowledge is offered by nationwide highway authorities and appropriate automobiles, beginning with different Volvo automobiles.
“Using our groundbreaking connected safety technology, our Accident Ahead Alert can help Volvo drivers avoid unpleasant surprises, while contributing to making roads safer for all,” says Åsa Haglund, Head of the Volvo Cars Safety Centre. “Thanks to our collaboration with the Danish Road Directorate and other partners in the Data for Road Safety ecosystem, we can introduce this new feature and continue our leadership in safety innovations.”
Volvo Cars’ industry-first linked security know-how, which was launched in 2016, makes use of Volvo Cars’ cloud, primarily based on real-time knowledge. It permits Volvo automobiles to speak with one another and alert drivers of close by slippery highway circumstances and hazards. In the identical approach, drivers can now be alerted to accidents forward whatever the time of the day.
Looking forward, we’re planning to combine extra visitors knowledge shared by different companions within the European Data for Road Safety ecosystem, together with nationwide visitors administration centres in different nations and automobiles from different manufacturers.
To make roads safer for all, we name for extra highway authorities to share nameless visitors accident knowledge and encourage different automobile makers to hitch us in providing comparable applied sciences. Needless to say, Volvo Cars has been dedicated to sharing linked security knowledge for others to combine into security options and can proceed doing so.
“We’re happy that Volvo Cars, as the first car maker to do so, has started using our new real-time traffic event data feed,” says Stine Bendsen, Head of the Danish Traffic Management Centre on the Danish Road Directorate. “A quick alert about an accident ahead gives the driver more time to slow down and increase the distance to the car in front. This helps to lower the risk of follow-up collisions and protect the people working to clear the road.”
For Volvo automobile house owners, it’s straightforward to contribute to highway security by choosing knowledge sharing: merely activate it utilizing the ‘connected safety’ choice in your automobile’s centre show. The automobile will then be capable of alert the driving force of an accident forward through the use of the hazard gentle alert within the dashboard and, if accessible, the head-up show. Rest assured that solely the important data can be shared with different automobiles and the info can be anonymised to make sure your privateness.
The small print
The Accident Ahead Alert characteristic is at the moment accessible in Denmark on all 90, 60 and 40 collection Volvo automobile fashions, from mannequin 12 months 2016 and onwards. It can be made accessible on the identical automobile fashions in additional European markets quickly.
