The Plus X Award – the largest technologies, sports, and lifestyle competition in the world – honors manufacturers for products of particularly outstanding quality. More than 1,000 products from all sectors of technologies, sports, and lifestyle were submitted for this year’s competition. The categories judged were innovation, high quality, design, ease of operation/functionality, ergonomics, and ecology.
Pedestrian detection with full auto brake combines a newly developed radar unit in the front grille and a camera at the level of the rear-view mirror in an effective system that spots pedestrians on the road ahead of the vehicle. If the driver fails to respond in time in this situation, the system automatically activates full braking power.
Half of all accidents involving pedestrians occur at speeds of less than 25km/h. The new Volvo system can completely prevent accidents of this type up to a speed of 35km/h. At higher speeds the system ensures maximum deceleration and therefore substantially reduces the consequences of an accident.
2 June 2010
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