A Possible World’s First
After doing a quick Google search, all I could find were animations of simulated car crash tests. Here’s a 3D video of our crash test for the C30 Electric. We’re taking the car to House of Sweden next week to show media and government officials what we are doing with future safety systems. I’ve not a [...]
Good Article on Crash Test Dummies
Just think of the abuse these poor sods take on for us carbon based uprights. Every so often I’ll ask one of our Swedish engineers if we can ‘borrow’ a test dummy, usually I need a child one for an event showing how best to protect children. I’ve always gotten the same response, “‘You’re nuts…you [...]
An ELECTRIC event this week in Detroit
I’m at this year’s North America International Auto Show in (really cold) Detroit, where on Tuesday we will unveil a crash tested Volvo C30 DRIVe Electric, the world’s first showing of safety in an electric car. Our focus is to bring the same kind of safety engineering leadership we do with all our cars into [...]
Real world test of City Safety
I know Bill, and he’s far from an “inept driver” as one commenter alludes to regarding this “2011 Volvo S60: A drivers car that makes better drivers” Boston.com article. Stuff happens, and in this case we saved all the hassles associated with a minor accident. Here is Clifford’s counterpoint to Bill’s piece. To an extent, [...]
Best Review of Pedestrian Safety I’ve Seen
Very good description and demonstration by our Naughty Tour host. Good holiday weekend to all our friends in the US. The rest of you…well it’s just two days to Monday. dan
Cryptic Message
Last week, after posting a short history of our seat belt, I received an e-mail from Sören, a man of very few words, always cryptic. His message was something like: “What, Clive and Mary.” And that was it. No clue what he was getting at. I sent an equally sparse reply: ‘?’. And of course, [...]
Car reviews
Our group sometimes is asked to answer customer e-mails/letters/phone calls, usually about safety or something more technical than our call center can handle, which isn’t much, but I think they toss these our way to play “stump the chump” with us. A good one came in last week, about why our C70 is not in [...]
