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Insane Volvo brake test epic fail

chamber361 · 4.8M views · 2010-05-07 · 0:23

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Overview

A short clip of a Volvo C60 automatic braking demonstration in which the car fails to stop. It was widely circulated as a press-demo embarrassment.

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Cited as a cautionary example whenever collision-avoidance or self-driving safety systems come up.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2010–2018

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Cars, EVs & motorcyclesSelf-driving & autonomous vehicles
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volvobrakingsafety systemsdemo failautonomous driving

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chillingeffect · 2018-03 · Criticism

Especially because a Volvo plowed into a pedestrian almost a year ago: [LINK] 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): [VIDEO] 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] [LINK]

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alexitosrv · 2011-07 · Criticism

Does anybody else remember this demostration of a Volvo featuring a similar characteristic and utterly failing? [VIDEO] These technologies need to gain the trust of the drivers before they can become mainstream.

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eli_s · 2010-10 · Criticism

It will take only a few of these: [VIDEO] (volvo crash avoidance failure) to shake people's confidence in these systems.

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