Volvo was the pioneer of modern safety belt in 1959, making his three -point harness debut which had a single strap flowing from shoulder to hip and through the knees of a driver. Technology has improved design in the last three -quarters of a century, but the concept remains the same.
This invention is a pillar of the company’s security objective. Volvo Cars has repeatedly stressed its commitment to reduce serious deaths and injuries in engine vehicle accidents over the years, whether by introducing new high -tech solutions or improving the structure of the body of vehicles.
“At Volvo Cars, security is not a wish. We actually bring this daring ambition, and we get there with implacable and rigorous tests in this crash laboratory,” said A Volvo Cars security center, said to Volvo Cars Nowsweek Before the first public collision test in three cars in Torslanda, Sweden.
“Security is not magical. It is a question of dedication, insight and engineering accidents, and this led us to a long list of innovations in terms of security,” said Haglund. Volvo has been the pioneer of many components that are standard in manufacturers’ cars around the world today: airbag inflatable curtains (1998), blind spot monitoring technology (2003), rear -facing children’s safety seats (1972) and more.
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“As the technology evolves, of course, we … relying on our knowledge of real traffic and motivated by our ambition to make cars safer for everyone, we have established our own safety standard,” said Haglund.
Volvo’s safety standard is “much strict than any rating requirement or regulation to reach five stars,” she said, saying that it is more than a set of security test cases, rather a state of mind that determines how Volvo was conceiving its products.
It is with this state of mind that the company has updated the three -point harness, which gives it a digital youth cure which provides detection and technology connected to the security system. The multi-adaptive seat belt will first arrive on the market in the next Volvo Ex60 electric SUV, which will make its debut and will soon be sold.
The new security belt uses IT technology to associate its digital imprint with sensors inside the vehicle that feeds data in real time with exterior information and inside the vehicle to better protect the occupants of Volvo vehicles. The belt adapts its safety settings, such as the quantity of tension, depending on the size, weight, body shape and position of the seat occupier.
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This differentiation is made because the bodies do not respond in an identical way in the collisions. A larger runner occupant a higher risk of head trauma in a serious collision. With the new seat belt, they will receive a higher load adjustment to help reduce their risk of head trauma. A small person in a less serious accident would receive a lower belt load adjustment to limit the risk of rib fractures, said the company.
“No one is the same. Everyone is different. Everyone has different shapes, a different size and different protection needs. And then you add to that, that you can crush in so many different ways, and everything can really happen in the field, you realize that protective safety systems inside the car must be able to adapt to many different situations. Nowsweek.
Today’s safety belts are generally a unique approach, although their sophistication varies according to the automaker and the vehicle.
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The new innovative belts and Volvo are the product of five decades of security research which was carried out in 80,000 occupants of real car accidents. The company intends to use the architecture of the connected vehicles of the ex60 to update the profiles of the seat belt over time, by improving efficiency, via the live software capacity of the car.