1. Edmunds’ Safety Conference: Truly Safe?
Washington DC
May 23-24th 2011
Myth: Drivers are in control
Thomas Broberg
Senior Technical Advisor
Volvo Cars Safety Centre
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2. Hisingsleden, Göteborg, 17:15, 13 Oct 2009
In real life…
Hisingsleden, Göteborg, 17:15, 13 Oct 2009
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3. …drivers are in control?
MY2009 (gen. III)
MY1997 (gen. I)
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4. A holistic view of safety…
Human
Infrastructure
Normal driving
Crash/Damage reduction
Conflict
Avoidance
After collision
Vehicle
The driver is well informed and can stay alert.
Technology helps the driver to handle the difficult situation.
The car acts automatically to avoid a collision if the driver fails to react.
The car’s safety systems help to reduce the crash energy in order to minimize the effect on the occupants.
The car automatically calls for assistance and facilitates the rescue work.
Knowing the challenge and where to go you need to define how to go there…
For that you need a well structured map with a holistic view where you consider not only the vehicle but also the environment it is used in, the infrastructure, and most importantly the human being in or outside the vehicle. This also means that we can not do this on our own. We need to cooperate with authorities and society. More so to work with these three aspects when developing knowledge and technology in relation to crashes we have defined different phases of safety. You can se it as a time line in the aspect of a crash where we of course try to reduce the effect and the risk of injuries. Looking at the preventive phases where we work to avoid the collision we have different phases starting ms to seconds to minutes to hours or even day’s before a potential crash and these phases all have their different challenges. Of course what happens after a collision must also be taken into acoount.
Time
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5. Crash/Damage reduction
Assist the driver…
Human
Infrastructure
Normal driving
Crash/Damage reduction
Conflict
Avoidance
After collision
Vehicle
The driver is well informed and can stay alert.
Technology helps the driver to handle the difficult situation.
The car acts automatically to avoid a collision if the driver fails to react.
The car’s safety systems help to reduce the crash energy in order to minimize the effect on the occupants.
The car automatically calls for assistance and facilitates the rescue work.
Knowing the challenge and where to go you need to define how to go there…
For that you need a well structured map with a holistic view where you consider not only the vehicle but also the environment it is used in, the infrastructure, and most importantly the human being in or outside the vehicle. This also means that we can not do this on our own. We need to cooperate with authorities and society. More so to work with these three aspects when developing knowledge and technology in relation to crashes we have defined different phases of safety. You can se it as a time line in the aspect of a crash where we of course try to reduce the effect and the risk of injuries. Looking at the preventive phases where we work to avoid the collision we have different phases starting ms to seconds to minutes to hours or even day’s before a potential crash and these phases all have their different challenges. Of course what happens after a collision must also be taken into acoount.
Time
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6. The real challenge – Knowing the Driver…
Crash/ Damage reduction
Normal driving
Conflict
Avoidance
After collision
Human
Infrastructure
Vehicle
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7. Cars are driven by people…
The guiding principle behind
everything we make at Volvo,
therefore, is – and must
remain – safety”
Assar Gabrielsson & Gustaf Larson,
the founders of Volvo
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8. Backup Läs på statistik US och Sverige
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9. Crash/ Damage reduction
Normal driving
Conflict
Avoidance
After collision
Human
Infrastructure
Vehicle
S60 safety technologies
NORMAL DRIVING
Alcogard
Driver Alert Control
Adaptive Cruise Control
IDIS
BLIS
Active Bi-Xenon
Que assist
Distance alert
CONFLICT
DSTC
Collision Warning with vehicles and pedestrians
Emergency Brake Lights
Lane Departure Warning
AVOIDANCE
City Safety
Collision Warning with full Autobrake and Pedestrian Detection
DAMAGE REDUCTION
City Safety
Collision Warning with full Autobrake and Pedestrian Detection
CRASH
Patented Front Structure
PRS
SIPS
WHIPS
ROPS
AFTER COLLISION
Volvo On Call
the third aspect… what we do at our best here at VCC: Cars.
As an example our latest launch the XC60. Here you see the holistic approach with the different phases in full bloom
Offering collision avoidance in low speeds with our City Safety technolgy as stsndard you may say that this is a humble step towards our vision…
And there this more…
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10. Our vision is to design cars that should not crash.
…our future.
Our vision is to design cars that should not crash.
In the shorter perspective the aim is that by 2020 no-one should be killed or injured in a Volvo.
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11. Future safety technology – a knowledge driven process of real life safety
Real world data
Safety requirements
Production
Circle of Life
Verification
Product development
Prototypes
2020
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12. MY2009 (gen. III)
MY1997 (gen. I)
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