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Especially because a Volvo plowed into a pedestrian almost a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW2UgmjJUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW2UgmjJUA
by chillingeffect 9y ago
Especially because a Volvo plowed into a pedestrian almost a year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW2UgmjJUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW2UgmjJUA
IIRC it was discovered this happened because the owner hadn't purchased the "Pedestrian Avoidance Package".
And shortly before that, a Volvo plowed into a parked truck (in a demo):
https://youtu.be/aNi17YLnZpg https://youtu.be/aNi17YLnZpg
This was "was the result of an earlier flat battery that temporarily disabled the system due to low voltage" [0]
The pattern here is not only due to the collision systems themselves, but to the system around the collision avoidance system.
[0] https://jalopnik.com/5648126/volvo-pedestrian-avoidance-crash-test-fails-spectacularly https://jalopnik.com/5648126/volvo-pedestrian-avoidance-cras...