Originally Posted by
Stadjer
Motor vehicles are not designed for bicyclist impacts. That's what motor vehicle manufacturers should be concerned with.
I might be a "Homer" since we just put money down on our 6th Volvo ... but I am a fan of Volvo for the
strong history leading safety advances.
Volvo Cars’ City Safety system is a technology that can detect, warn and auto-brake to avoid collisions with cyclists. It was the industry’s first step to seriously address cyclist safety.
(
All cars sold by Volvo Car
with a model year of 2014 or later is equipped with City Safety Generation II)
Volvo Cars and POC to demonstrate life-saving wearable cycling tech concept at International CES 2015
Footnote: in case you didn't see the full story from the Uber autonomous vehicle fatal crash -
Uber disabled emergency braking in self-driving car: U.S. agency
At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined emergency braking was needed. But Uber said, according to the NTSB, that automatic emergency braking maneuvers in the Volvo XC90 were disabled while the car was under computer control in order to “reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior.”