And it was based on research by the US Airforce - Dr John Paul Stapp was behind it in the 1950’s. He showed that a restrained human body was able to survive over 46 g decelerations with only minor recoverable injuries following a crash stop from Mach 1 (by doing it himself).
I don't think it's fair to attribute every life between 1960 and 2012, to that one inventor. Had he not invented it, someone else would have within the decade. So maybe he saved thousands of lives by doing it sooner, but not 329k.
@@allangibson2408 i don't know about that but they might have just tested for themselves but dint contribute anything! other than just numbers that were already in mind of Volvo enginer. 3 point seat belts were already in affect before test and were already showing life saving capabilities, i don't think that test taken or not would have changed anything.
@@masterraceofeverything4504 The justification for three point belts came out of the work by John Paul Stapp on the basis that you can drive a 1960’s era car head on into a wall at 55mph and survive if you are wearing a seatbelt that restrains you from hitting some other object in the car. Three points is the minimum that mostly achieves this. John Stapp developed the prototype for this in 1952 but his had a web panel between the shoulder and waist. The US standard airbag is a response to people not wearing the fitted seatbelts. The downside of US specification airbags is they are known to kill drivers and front seat passengers smaller than the 20% percentile (mostly women and children) if they are within arms reach of the airbags (ie driving the car). Everywhere else on the planet designs airbags as a “supplemental restraint system” (the SRS on the bag covers) to be used in addition to rather than instead of seat belts.
Not sure if the stat still stands, but there has never been a crash fatality in an XC-90 (at least in Europe) since it was released in 2002. That says a lot by itself.
Says something about the people that drive volvo as well, if all the volvo and bmw/audi owners swapped cars i am certain they would manage to break that 0.
we have a 2005 xc70 with 210,000 miles on it and i love driving it mainly because of that OG 2.5 T engine. It has the most solid doors and hardly anything except for some interior plastic has worn.
We have a 2014 xc70 and it is so SOLID. The auto brake sensors have saved a few collisions just by themselves so far. plus it has the t6 engine tuned to 350hp so is a real sleeper
After being involved in a few crashes, some not with me driving, it always haunts me whenever I do have to drive somewhere. Some crashes really are inevitable. Like someone running a red light, someone driving while intoxicated, the list of possibilities goes on. Just always be safe , & be alert for any possibilities that you may endure whether it's just down the street, or across the country. Always be ready
@@Q_20 Mostly, because when you're hit by a car, you probably will break your legs and roll over it, while an SUV hits you around chest height and you're more prone to fall to the ground and below it. Also it's heavier and higher, meaning less stability and longer braking distance, at the same time that, if you hit a lighter car, it'll get pushed by the SUV and absorb the worst part of the impact
my 240 still holds decent safety standars to this day. would be higher if it had airbags but those were like 13 years away from being mandatory in sweden
A few months ago me and my girlfriend got Tboned at about 40mph in her 04' S60. I didn't even know the car had curtain airbags, but her side got hit, and she walked away without even so much as a sore neck or bruised shoulder.
This is why I love Volvo Cars. They really care about human lives. We are not just people buying their cars and making them and the company richer, they want us to be safe in a high quality car and get a new Volvo in case any accident happens.
I finally understood what he is saying, "Volvo recreates the stuff that doesn't happen(all types of crash test), that way if it happens it is tested(so/and they have safety measures implemented)"
I had a friend that had a massive rollover in a 760 he walked away from. Of course he bought a new Volvo because it was a write off and came with a new registration number IOU1
I love Volvo always have had a Volvo. Always will have a Volvo. Super super safe cars and plus if you get in an accident the other car WILL look absolutely worse than yours😂
That was an aspiration, a vision, which has not been achieved due to the fact that in reality autonomous driving is much more complex than originally anticipated. They are still working on it though, the new XC90 to be revealed this year will have the most advanced Lidar technology as standard, which should be a game changer. It will probably still take at least 5 years until a 90% reliable and widely functional self driving system is established
"No you don't get discount of this ca... what Timothy? You want crash test this model with these new XXXL cup holder for their safety? Go ahead! Take two!"
It's a good thing that they don't do what sleazy electronics companies do with patenting their products so other companies can't use the safety features in their vehicles.
Really surprised they don't use LIDAR for pin point accuracy of area of an accident. I was half expecting to see a display of the accident like that slow motion animation at the end of the video. To understand the depth of how far an impact will hit and how to prevent those deeper impacts I would think would be part of the goal. Especially if you can slow momentum and decrease the velocity of each impact. Not being an engineer myself, I could definitely be wrong but just seems logical to kill those two things and accidents to the passengers will cease or be limited
What percentage of World production Volvo cars are destroyed in this testing regime . Good in your Volvo I wonder what the cost is as a percentage in the retail cost on the vehicle
While I do appreciate Volvo for inventing the three point seat belt and subsequently saving so many lives, when it comes to overall crash protection and injury prevention, I’m a little more skeptical. In 1995, when the Volvo 850 was tested by the IIHS, its structure was rated Acceptable, while the Ford Taurus and Chevrolet Lumina of the same year had structures rated Good. When the first-gen Volvo S40 was tested in 2002, the dummy measured a possible broken right ankle, while the dummy in the 2002 Subaru Impreza measured no significant injury risk. The same applies to the second-gen S40 and first gen S60, injury risk present in front and/or side crashes while other makes outperformed them. Even as recent as 2021, the XC40 only managed an Acceptable overall rating in the updated IIHS side crash test, scoring a Marginal for structure and pelvis injury risk, while the Mazda CX-5 received a Good overall rating. Volvo may have never made a poor performing vehicle in a front/side crash test, but aside from their performance in the recent small overlap tests, where the S80/XC90 had models from 2003/2007 scoring Good, they have never really stood apart from other brands when it comes to crash test results. They were either matched or beaten by vehicles from other manufacturers.
Please.don't ever buy a Volvo. You have discovered the secret that it's all a conspiracy to fool you. You deserve a much better automobile. Such as a short yellow bus for paranoid morons who take themselves way too seriously.
I think the union representative for the Volvo crash test dummies should have a word with management to ensure they are getting proper care given the dangerous situations they put themselves into. It is also disturbing that children, Volvo are using children crash test dummies! I thought there was an age restriction in which children are able to to work... Even though they are a dummy... Which come to think of it, maybe a discriminatory term, or even a derogatory term.. for a mechanical worker performing an important, but dangerous job!
"what if it could be 0?" yeah no.. someones gonna find a way regardless, some have died with helmets from hits a lot softer than the usual crash. with that being said i do hope vehicle safety gets safe enough to prevent many of the undeserved deaths caused by others drinking and driving.
Yea and you think you are genius when you clearly can’t distinguish marketing and being realistic. Apple saying “they made the best phone ever” does not mean they made a phone which can last 67 years on a single charge. Why tf would Volvo be serious with saying they can make 0 deaths. As a country strives for zero unemployment it doesn’t mean zero unemployment occurs.
The only way to eliminate car crash fatalities is to eliminate car crashes, and the only way to eliminate car crashes is to eliminate cars. Planes are way safer than cars, yet there are still plane crashes and resulting deaths every year. Even highly-trained astronauts in space vehicles have had crashes and fatalities.
Worth noting: Volvo makes a lot of SUVs. Heavy SUVs can be safe for poeple inside, but is very dangerous for other people in normal, lighter cars. Same is true for electric cars.
Actually when Volvo introduced their first true SUV, the XC90, they developed a Frontal Underrun Protection System which prevents smaller cars from being at a disadvantage in head-on crashes
"but what if it could be zero" yea imagine this, we will be at 1 death (probably a suicide) and Volvo will still have the lights on at that facility. This kind of sentiment is what makes the sad times sadder and the good times short lived because people walk around with the idea that safety can be absolute. the funny part is what they don't realize is they aren't walking, their driving a 1.6 ton hunk of metal going 60 mph right next to a 12 ton hunk of metal going the same speed.
In Brazil, roughly 11 thousand people died last year as a result of car accidents. Maybe instead of focusing on car safety, we should focus on the fundamentals more, like not driving intoxicated.
Imagine if Volvo fed all that data (edit : including the video data) into an AI powered by a quantum computer. Might make real life crash testing redundant.
@@Rowrowthegravyboat : I thought the same for a long time, until I saw how AI designed suspension parts. I'm a 3D designer myself and was thoroughly impressed. For me that weas the tipping point ... I'm now convinced a lot of work can be done in simulation. watch?v=VdG4gUTowXc
this, to achieve a greater road safety we need to focus on designing roads that discourage unsafe behaviours. safer cars is just not enough, not to mention that the new car designs are lethal for people outside of them
If they actually cared about safety they would let all manufacturers use that facility… Imagine all the people dying unnecessarily just so Volvo could profit
