VOLVO XC60 Driver Assistance System Analysis
Volvo’s XC60 competes with the Audi Q5, BMW X3 and Mercedes GLK.
The designer of the car is Doug Frazer who reports to Steve Martin, director of design at Volvo Car.
Several innovations equip the car mainly in active safety, lighting and driver assistance safety systems.
Driving Vision News’ in-depth analysis of the XC60 covers three rubrics:
Front lighting, Rear lighting and Driver system assistance systems.
Front lighting was presented on the 28th of October and rear lighting on the 11th of November. We present this week the third instalment with Driver Assistance systems.
The main Driver Assistance system of note in the XC60 is the City Safety system starting in 2009. Volvo are the first car maker in the world to offer an active crash avoidance system as standard equipment.
Why such a system?
The risk of rear-end collisions is particularly great in city traffic with its constant alternation between braking and accelerating. 75% of crashes recorded by the police occur at speeds below 30 km/h. Because in half of those cases the driver had not braked at all before the collision, Volvo took the decision to launch such a system to avoid collisions at low speed.