Europe’s Safest Fleet Car?
Simon Turner MARRM MAFP
Engagement Manager, Driving for Better Business and Chairman of ARRM. Passionate about safer fleets ??
With our latest Stop the Crash events happening towards the end of March, it seemed appropriate to write a piece about one of our demo cars, the new Volvo XC60, for a couple of reasons.
The first reason is the number of awards it has won in the few short months since it became available. This is partly down to the ground-breaking safety technology fitted to the car which saw it achieve the highest ever score in the Euro NCAP crash tests making it the safest car currently on sale in Europe. The XC60 scored a near-perfect 98 per cent in the Adult Occupant category, and 95 per cent for Safety Assist.
The XC60 has joined its stablemates the S90 and V90 as the only three cars to have ever achieved a perfect score in each of the three Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) tests – AEB City (low speed), AEB Inter Urban (high speed) and AEB Pedestrian. Volvo has made history with this feat as, with these three cars, the manufacturer now holds all the top three rankings in all three Euro NCAP AEB categories simultaneously.
The second reason I thought I’d write about it is that mine was delivered just three weeks ago, during which time it’s covered about 1200 miles and I have to say I can back up all the above – it is a mightily impressive piece of kit.
You can read my full article at
https://www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com/europes-safest-fleet-car/
Lovely looking vehicle. It still relies on human input (millions of calculations per second), to ensure that just about the correct pressure is excerted through our right foot to make it glide effortlessly at a safe, appropriate speed for it’s immediate environment. The BIG question remains: Regardless of what we drive, how do we get people to think about how they drive before, during and after each journey.