Volvo's active vs. passive safety features
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Road injuries get increased with an increase in people plus lacking focus on roads. According to the World Health Organization, as a result of road injuries, approximately 1.35 million people die every year, and 20 to 50 million people are troubled with incurring disabilities. Sweden luxury automobile manufacturer named Volvo brings about something intelligent with road safety features assist in skipping out a collision with active and passive safety systems.
Systems with continuous monitoring capabilities are classifying as active safety features. Some of the essentials are listed below with an elaborated functioning:
Lane Keeping Aid
Lane Keeping Aid affords steering assistance with alert signals that instruct the driver when the vehicle gets deviated from its lane involuntarily. (i.e.) it steers the wheels to retain its track and also warns the driver with acoustic signals or steering wheel vibrations if the driver gets distracted. This lane assist gets active between 65-200 km/h with visibility of perfect lane markings.
Blind Spot Information System
If the driver needs to change the lane, the visibility of the rear side is not enough, so it is quite tough to change track in dense traffic circumstances. This BLIS ( Blind Spot Information System ) provides indications about the vehicles at the near lane in the side mirrors with alerting lights at the edge using rear radars. This system helps the driver to safe lane changes.
Active High Beam Control
This feature adapts the headlight for recommended conditions at night. If this active high beam control has turned on, this can adjust the beam for a user and opposite vehicle convenience. While running, light is actually at a high beam when any headlights of approaching vehicles or the taillights of the vehicle ahead have detected, this system shifts to lower beam with active control at the instant. For these purposes, cameras have been placed at the windshield.
Driver Alert Control
This control system assists the driver when he/she gets distressed or fell asleep while driving. When the driver gets distracted, Drive Alert Control monitors the steering movement of the vehicle corresponding to the direction of the road. If the car got deviated, this system pings a sound to retain the controls of the driver.
City Safety
Volvo's city safety is a revolutionary technology that benefits the driver mostly during low-speed conditions to avoid collisions with other vehicles or pedestrians or any obstacles. This system will apply the brake on its own while detecting the sudden appearance of an object, which will respond faster than the driver.
Systems that remain inactive till we want are classifying as passive safety features. Some of the essentials are listed below with an elaborated functioning:
Pedestrian Airbag
The pedestrian airbag is an innovational feature to protect pedestrians from a collision in which an airbag is placed in the exterior. This airbag is installed under the bonnet near the windscreen, and sensors are fixed in the bumper edge. If the collision occurs, these sensors sense the sudden impact force applied on the front, and the bonnet gets opened to take out this airbag. This airbag protects the pedestrian's head safely. It works between 20-50 km/h approximately.
Collapsible Steering Column
This Collapsible Steering Column protects the driver from the frontal impact while crashing. This feature is pure mechanical consist of hollow tubes enclosed with one another with appropriate bearing and sealing. If the vehicle is crashed, this tube structure gets collapse. It protects the driver from huge damages.
Collision Mitigation Support
In overtaking, if there is a vehicle in an opposite lane while the driver changes the lane or vice versa, it tends to crash. Collision Mitigation Support can reduce this crash by alerts the driver. Now the driver gets cautious, and applies the brake, so the speed of the car gets reduced. This feature will decrease the damage to the vehicle by decrease speed.
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