FAIL - Volvo's Safety Demo Goes Awry

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This is hilarious but in the end it still doesn't change my mind about Volvo's safety. It's a preproduction car, things go wrong, that's why they make preproduction cars in the first place. And after that embarassment you can be CERTAIN that engineers will make sure this will work as advertised, just like you can be certain that unintended acceleration will never happen again in any newly designed Toyota model in the future. Automakers may not learn from each other's mistakes but they definitely learn from their own.

That might be a pre-production car, but this system is already used in Volvo's currently on the market. The XC60 has this system. It should be working properly if it's already in production.

Let stick to the subject here, it Volvo safety that fail not Toyota in the video.

This is prove that even the most famous and successful companies for safety can sometime fail and no one is perfect.

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They failed on a preproduction model, not millions of sold vehicles worldwide. Do not confuse the two.

This reminds me of the Mercedes press demonstration of their soft-touch brake system- they had turned it off and forgot to tell the driver.

So right in front of the press, instead of stopping, the S-class rammed into the rear of the other S-class at 30 mph.

wasn't this the one where the radar failed and the 3 cars crashed?

As I recall, they were testing that no pressure braking system- I have forgotten what they call it- the one where you simply press on the pedal and the car applies braking pressure based on the adaptive cruise radar system inputs for distance.

I bet we are talking about the same thing (it was inside). I don't recall three cars, but two were definitely involved. As I recall, it wasn't that the system failed- it is that it simply wasn't on. It has been a while though.

But the way the car protected the driver during the collision was still impressive. Volvo is still a good company in terms of safety.

You mean the way the airbag FAILED to deploy? Yeah...that's safety for you.

^^^You mean you didnt know that was a pre-production model? Yeah, thats too bad for you.

I dont rely on technology like this. Im impressed alone at the crash and how well the Volvo took that blow. The technology actually working would have been a plus though.

I was only referring to the car body ~ the way it absorbed the impact & protected the driver. The airbag may not had been there in that particular car, because it was there only to demo the CWS (which unfortunately failed in front of everybody).

I understood what you meant...

If you rewind and watch a few times that driver took one hell of an impact against the steering wheel and whiplash.

Where are the airbags?

Ha...ha...ha... Good thing it was Volvo because it were Toyota, Nissan or Honda we probably over 1000+ posts already. Hopefully that driver inside or dummy inside is okay.

correction,

if it were Toyota etc..

Just throwin' this out there. Part of me thinks Chuck Taylor had something to do with this.

anybody who can understand swedish translate what the spokesperson is saying at the end?

I am not a big fan of the car braking for me, maybe you might want to be ramming something.

So what if it didnt work. Its the responsibility of the driver to slow down. This is just another safety feature. For some reason I can see future US drivers suing because the computer didnt do it for them. On the other hasnd the car held up great in the front. You can almost say excellent.

At 30mph any modern car would've held up as great.

I don't think the radar picked up the truck's Mansfield bar or axles...I'd say they have some work yet to do on this.