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Safety Systems * Sweden - Volvo’s new ones, keep the driver on course
Stockholm,Sweden -Easier (Chester,UK) -13 April 2007: -- Volvo Trucks has a long tradition of pursuing the development of safety systems for heavy trucks. Over the years, the company has achieved a number of pioneering breakthroughs, such as the introduction of the safety cab, the fitting of seat belts as standard, the deformable steering wheel and much more... These developments have contributed to the fact that since 2001, fatal accidents on the European road network have dropped by about 20 per cent, although the EU target is to halve this figure by 2010... One way of reducing risks in traffic is to integrate accident-preventive active safety systems into the vehicles themselves, so coinciding neatly with the EU’s Road Safety Day on April 27th, Volvo Trucks is introducing two such systems, Lane Keeping Support and Adaptive Cruise Control... Lane Keeping Support alerts with precision: Activated at 60 kph, Lane Keeping Support (LKS) is a system which continuously monitors the lane marker lines and alerts the driver with an audible signal if the vehicle is unintentionally about to stray from its lane... Camera in the windscreen: LKS consists of a position sensor (i.e. a camera and accompanying control unit that reads off the road markings) and a computer that registers whether the truck is about to stray from its current lane. The camera is installed at the upper edge of the windscreen, the control unit is fitted in the radio shelf and the computer is located behind the passenger seat... ACC with greater braking force and improved radar function: As well as launching LKS, Volvo is also presenting a new generation of ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control), in which the wheel brakes have now been integrated into the system... Lane Keeping Support will be available on the Volvo FH and FH16, while Adaptive Cruise Control will be available on all Volvo FM, FH and FH16 models with I-Shift... Delivery of both systems will start this autumn...Labels: safety systems
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