Correct. Volvo (and Saab too) were always and still are nuts about car safety. On a very related note, the Volvo Vision 2020 project: http://www.unece.org/file

Correct. Volvo (and Saab too) were always and still are nuts about car safety. On a very related note, the Volvo Vision 2020 project: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/roadsafe/unda/Sweden_Volvo_Vision_2020.pdf http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/roadsafe/unda/Swede... TL;DR: no-one should die or be seriously injured in a crash in a new Volvo by 2020 (two vehicle generations away from now). Mostly that's based on Gilb's first two Laws of Unreliability (computers are unreliable, but humans are far more so, and systems which depend on human reliability are by definition unreliable).