Volvo Cars Netherlands introduces the Driver Support Line: a package of options that piece by piece help Volvo 's driver to be better. The package consists of Adaptive Cruise Control with Distance Alert Collision Warning with Automotive Brake, Driver Alert with Lane Departure Warning and the Blind Spot Information System. The Driver Support Line is available on the XC60, V70, S80 and XC70.
In 1927, the founders of Volvo, Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson said: "Cars are driven by people. Therefore, the safety guide for everything we do at Volvo. " Since then, Volvo Cars has introduced a large number of revolutionary technologies . It is the interaction between the various safety systems and functions that determines how safe a car is not the components separately. Volvo safety is the result of a complete, integrated solution. Volvo's Driver Support Line combines the latest preventive safety features that Volvo Cars currently has to offer.
Driver stand central.
At Volvo Cars is the development of security solutions based on three main aspects: the car, traffic and humans. The driver must be alert to and able to be in a stressful situation to a quick decision. But that is often easier said than done. Hence, the development at Volvo aims to help the driver. It focuses on technology that helps the driver in critical situations and to avoid collisions. Road traffic accidents should not be regarded as inevitable. With the right technology can be the driver needed help to prevent accidents.
- Driver Alert Control: unique technology that warns drivers from tired or inadvertently. This system will keep the driving of the car between the road markings in the eye and warns the driver when detected the erratic driving patterns or slightly uncontrolled. The driver is in this way already warned well before his/her eyelids begin to be heavy, but also in cases where the driver is distracted by other factors, such as during a telephone conversation.
- Lane Departure Warning (LDW): warns the driver with a subtle sound when the car cross without apparent reason - for example, without the direction lights is set - a road marking. This feature helps to prevent unilateral accidents, (vehicle get off the road) , but also arising frontal collisions from a secondary driver.
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC): an adaptive cruise control that uses radar sensor to maintain distance permanently. It automatically adjusting the vehicle speed and distance to that of a target vehicle. ACC uses a long range radar sensor to detect a target vehicle up to 200 meters in front and automatically adjusts the ACC vehicle speed and gap accordingly. ACC automatically decelerates or accelerates the vehicle according to the desired speed and distance settings established by the driver. As per standard cruise control the driver can override the system at any time.
Distance Alert help driver to keep a proper distance to the car in front of his/her even if the ACC function is off. If hi/she get too close to the car in front of, the system alert driver with a red light in the lower part of the windscreen. Distance Alert will not brake the car like the ACC does.
Distance Alert is activated via a button on the centre console and supports in speeds above 65 km/h. If Distance Alert is active and ACC is turned on, the Distance Alert will be automatically and temporarily disengaged.
- Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) : helps detect vehicles moving in the 'dead corner' of the exterior are. A warning to the exterior lights to the driver's attention to the vehicle in the blind spot.
- Auto Collision Warning with Brake (CWAB): when the driver and another vehicle approaching from the rear without responding, a flashing red lamp projected on the windshield and sounds an audible noise at the same time. This will allow the driver to react, leaving him/her in most cases out of a collision may occur. If the driver doesn't brake and the sensor system determines that a collision is imminent, the brakes are activated. Auto Brake is designed to lower the impact speed as much as possible and thereby reduce the risk of injury to the occupants of both vehicles.
