Volvo Car Corporation to develop active safety systems at new test facility
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| Cross Traffic Alert |
An
entirely new test facility for active car safety is all set to play an
important role for Volvo Car Corporation's continued leadership in the field of
safety. The facility will be built and operated by the company Active SafetyTest Area AB - ASTA.
Operating
under the AstaZero brand name, ASTA will run the test facility that will be
located beside Volvo Car Corporation's existing proving ground at Hällered in
western Sweden. Volvo Car Corporation will be one of the users of the unique
test environments that will be available.
"With
the new facility we will have access to an excellent tool for the development
of tomorrow's intelligent safety and driver support systems," says Peter
Mertens, Senior Vice President, Research & Development at Volvo Car
Corporation. He continues: "Volvo Car Corporation is the automotive
industry's leader in safety and our engineers are now developing
next-generation technologies as another step toward our vision that nobody
should suffer fatal or serious injuries in a new Volvo car by the year
2020."
Active
safety is all about technical solutions that help the driver avoid an accident
or significantly reduce the consequences of an accident. Some of the most
recent innovations from Volvo Car Corporation include Pedestrian Detection with
full auto brake, City Safety, Driver Alert Control, Cross Traffic Alert and
Road Sign Information - systems that are available in the all-new Volvo V40,
for instance.
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| City Safety |
At
AstaZero's new test facility, both drivers and vehicles will be put to the test
in a wide variety of traffic environments - busy city roads, highways,
multi-lane motorways and crossroads. One crucial parameter is the interaction
with other cars, pedestrians, cycles, mopeds, motorcycles, trucks and buses.
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| Pedestrian Detection |
The
various traffic situations that will be tested include monotonous highway
driving with sudden obstacles appearing in the road, inner-city traffic that
includes dummy vehicles and human dummies, and multi-lane motorways involving
lots of vehicles. It will also be possible to subject long vehicle rigs to
highly demanding maneuvers - all so as to develop even more effective
protection against roll-over accidents.
ASTA
is owned by SP (the Technical Research Institute of Sweden) and the Chalmers
University of Technology in Gothenburg. The facility will become operational in
2014.
In Manila, Viking Cars,
Incorporated is the official distributor of Volvo cars. The Volvo Makati
office, showroom and Customer Service Center are located at 2272 Chino Roces
Avenue, Makati City. Volvo Cebu is located at A.S. Fortuna Street, Banilad,
Mandaue City. The 2012 Volvo automobile line includes the nimble C30 Sports
Coupé, the versatile All-New C70 Coupé-Convertible, the compact All-New S40 and
V50 Sportswagon, the flagship S80 luxury sedan, the ruggedly refined All-New
XC70 Cross Country, the groundbreaking Volvo XC60 with City Safety as standard
and the award-winning XC90 AWD. Also available in the Philippines is the bold
S60 sports sedan and the excitingly versatile All-new Volvo V60 Sportswagon
2.0L T5. Just recently introduced to the local market is the new Volvo S60
sports sedan diesel variant. For details and inquiries, please call 893-6621 to
22 or 637-0414 to 15.
For more information,
please contact, John Eric D. Ho, Marketing Services Assistant: 892
1677 or 893-6621 local 430; johnericho@volvophils.com
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