Safety and Volvo usually go hand in hand — it's one of the characteristics we've always associated with the brand. Volvo reinforces this link and now “attacks” on the dangers that can come from high speeds. Volvo will limit all its models to 180 km/h from 2020.
A measure taken under its Vision 2020 programme, which aims to have no fatalities or serious injuries in a Volvo model by 2020 — ambitious, to say the least…
According to the Swedish brand, technology alone will not be enough to achieve this goal, so it also intends to take measures directly related to driver behavior.
Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of Volvo CarsVolvo is a leader in safety: we always have been and always will be. Because of our research, we know what are the problem areas to get rid of serious injuries or fatalities in our cars. And while limited speed isn't a cure-all, it's worth doing if we can save a life.
Restricting the vehicle's maximum speed might just be the beginning. Thanks to geofencing technology (a virtual fence or perimeter), future Volvos will be able to see their speed limited automatically when circulating in areas such as schools or hospitals.
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Don't we see the danger in speed?
Drivers do not seem to associate speed with danger, according to Jan Ivarsson, one of the safety experts at Volvo Cars: “people often drive too fast for a given traffic situation and have a poor adaptation of speed in relation to the traffic situation and their abilities as drivers.”Volvo takes the pioneering and leading role in a discussion it wants to start on the role of manufacturers in changing driver behavior by introducing new technologies — do they have the right to do it or do they even have an obligation to do so?
gaps
Volvo, in addition to limiting all its models to 180 km/h, assuming the velocity as one of the areas where gaps exist in achieving the goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries, it detected two more areas in need of intervention. One of them is the intoxication — driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics — the other is distraction at the wheel , an increasingly worrying phenomenon due to smartphone use while driving.