pedestrian warnings. Similar to the system implemented in the S80, the
car will alert flash a strip of red LEDs at the top of the cars
dashboard and at the same time make a very weird sound. If you continue
snoozing, the car will reduce speed gradually until it will stop thus
avoiding a very unhappy accident.Being a Volvo, it has a lot of safety
gear that luckily did not have a negative effect on the beautiful
stylish aspect of the car. The S60 continues the design pattern chosen
by Volvo, and this new model resembles with the S80, but it has a
truncated tail and a tapered nose. When compared to the S80, the height
and width are almost the same. The difference is mostly in the
wheelbase and length.We mentioned before the $2100 Technology Package
available for the S60. Part of this optional is the proprietary
pedestrian-detection system that uses a camera that is installed near
the top of the windshield and relies also on the cruise controls
grille-installed radar that detects pedestrians and will stop the S60
automatically. For those of you that are interested about how this
system works, keep reading.The camera is aimed at the road ahead and
sends photos to the S60s onboard computer that will try to match these
pictures to the database that the computer has, which consists of more
than 10,000 pedestrian photos. By doing so, the system will find out if
the object that is located in front of the car is an actual person. If
the computer of the car senses that there is a person in the path of
the car, the radar will kick in and will find out how far away that
person is. The car will continue approaching the pedestrian and the
collision-warning alarm that is installed at the base of the S60s
windshield will begin to flash and make alert sounds in order to warn
the driver of an imminent accident. During the time the computer warns
the driver, the S60 ""prepares"" the brakes for a full stop by moving
the brake pads closer to the rotors. If the driver will ignore these
signals, the car will automatically start fully braking until the S60
is stopped. If the driver is traveling with a speed of up to 22 mph,
this system can stop the car before having an impact with the
pedestrian. Anything above that will help reduce the force of the
impact which will result in fewer injuries, hopefully.Source:
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