Weston Volvo

When you hear "Volvo" you immediately associate the brand with safety and reliability. Volvo wagons, sedans, CUVs and SUVs have won countless safety awards over the years. In 2001, Volvo went above and beyond and debuted a concept car entirely dedicated to safety at the North American International Auto Show. Today, fifteen safety technologies featured in the Safety Concept Car (SCC) are available in Volvo models, including the forward collision warning (now CitySafe, a pedestrian…

Volvo's new collision avoidance system, "City Safe," is raising the benchmark for driver- safety technology. The new collision avoidance system was designed with the statistics that roughly 75 percent of automobile collisions occur at or below 20 miles per hour in mind. The system contains an optical radar system to monitor traffic up to six meters ahead.  If  "City Safe" registers a car ahead drastically slowing or suddenly stopping, the vehicle will automatically pre-charge…