Volvo cars with City Safety gets insurance premium cuts by upto 30 per cent

06 September 2008

Volvo Cars new safety function City Safety, has attracted a lot of attention and considerable interests from insurance companies, who are cutting premiums by up to 30 per cent for anyone who insures a Volvo XC60.

City Safety, a standard fitted technology in the Volvo XC60, helps the car to brake automatically at low speeds of upto30 km/h if the driver has been distracted and does not respond to a vehicle in front. The function helps cut the number and severity of low-speed rear-end collisions, which represent a large proportion of the total number of accidents that take place.

According to a Volvo, the car receives its command to brake from a laser sensor that is well-protected behind the windscreen. The command is sent to a processor that determines if the car has to be braked automatically.

"City Safety is an auxiliary system that never takes over the driver's responsibility," emphasises a Volvo official.

City Safety is expected to reduce the number of personal injuries and material damage in conjunction with low-speed impacts, which decreases costs for customers, insurance companies and society in general. Additionally, City Safety helps avoid or reduce the risk of whiplash injuries among occupants in the car being hit.

The new XC60 is Volvo's safest car ever and it can be equipped with all the very latest advances in safety-enhancing technology. Owing to the positive effects of City Safety, several insurance companies the world over are cutting premiums by 10 to 30 percent for customers who insure the new cross-over model with them.