Nearly one-third of all car crashes involve rear-end collisions. And in nearly half of those, the driver never touched the brakes. Volvo has been developing collision warning systems for years. The ...

Volvo’s Collision Warning System with brake support was launched recently in its S80, where a red light flashes and a buzzer sounds if you’re about to run into something. It even goes a step further ...

The reason an Uber self-driving car fatally struck a pedestrian in March is coming into sharper focus, thanks to the release of a preliminary report on Thursday from the National Transportation Safety ...

Doug Speck, Senior Vice President Marketing, Sales and Customer Service at Volvo Car Group, literally rolled out another Volvo world first in automotive safety at a press conference at the 2013 Geneva ...

Automatic braking systems — currently installed on some Volvo vehicles — could slice the number of low-speed crashes that happen in typical commuter traffic by a quarter if widely adopted, according ...

Gizmag has written a few pieces about the forthcoming Volvo S60 which is due to be released in 2010. In this installment we look at the newly-developed pedestrian alert system being incorporated into ...

Driving a new vehicle that’s equipped with the latest safety assistance systems could make a difference between life and death not only for its occupants, but for distracted pedestrians, too. What you ...

In the next decade Volvo wants to end car fatalities. The first step to that goal is giving human drivers a computer supervisor. The Swedish car company's latest safety feature is the Collision ...

Sometimes, a warning beep or seeing something through a camera just isn’t good enough. When you’re backing up a car, for instance, the common audible alerts and visual safety features just can’t ...