page_title: Volvo Cars
section_title: Safety milestones
hierarchical_section_title: Volvo Cars / Safety / Safety milestones
caption_attribution_description: Volvo 122 coupe photographed in USA.
context_page_description: Volvo Cars, stylized as VOLVO, is a Swedish luxury automobile marque. It is headquartered in Torslanda in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  The company manufactures and markets sport utility vehicles, station wagons, sedans and compact executive sedans. The Volvo Group was founded in 1927 as a subsidiary of the ball bearing manufacturer SKF. When AB Volvo was introduced on the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935, SKF sold most of its shares in the company. Its cars are marketed as being safe, solidly built and reliable while emphasizing on their Swedish heritage and design.
  The heavy truck and construction equipment conglomerate AB Volvo and Volvo Cars have been independent companies since AB Volvo sold Volvo Cars to the Ford Motor Company in 1999. Volvo Cars has been majority-owned since 2010 by the Geely Holding Group. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo, and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum. With approximately 2,300 local dealers from around 100 national sales companies worldwide, Volvo Cars' largest markets are China, the United States, Sweden and other countries in the European Union. Most of its worldwide employees are based in Sweden.
context_section_description: (This list is not necessarily Volvo innovations, but dates when Volvo incorporated the technology into its cars)
  1944 – safety cage
  1944 – laminated windscreen
  1957 – anchor points for two-point safety belts, front
  1958 – anchor points for two-point safety belts, rear
  1959 – three-point safety belt, standard in front seats
  1964 – rearward-facing child safety seat, first prototype tested
  1966 – crumple zones front and rear
  1966 – safety door-locks
  1969 – inertia-reel safety belts
  1971 – reminder safety belt
  1972 – three-point safety belt, outer rear seats
  1972 – rearward-facing child safety seat
  1974 – multistage impact absorbing steering column
  1974 – bulb integrity sensor
  1975 – braking system with stepped bore master cylinder
  1978 – child safety booster cushion
  1982 – "anti-submarining" protection
  1986 – three-point safety belt in centre rear seat (740/760)
  1990 – integrated child safety cushion in centre rear seat (940/960)
  1991 – Side Impact Protection System (850 and 940/960)
  1991 – automatic height adjusting safety belt
  1992 – reinforced rear seats, estate models
  1995 – front side airbags (seat-mounted) for torso (850), integrated child safety cushion, outer rear seats
  1997 – Roll Over Protection System (C70)
  1998 – Whiplash Protection System (S80)
  1998 – roof-mounted inflatable curtain side airbags (S80)
  2001 – SCC : Volvo Safety Concept Car
  2002 – Roll Stability Control (XC90)
  2003 – Volvo Intelligent Vehicle Architecture, new front structure (S40, V50)
  2003 – rear seat belt reminders (S40, V50)
  2003 – Intelligent Driver Information System, a system that selectively blocks information to the driver in complex traffic situations and lets the information through once the situation has calmed down (S40, V50)
  2003 – Volvo's Traffic Accident Research Team, inaugurated in Bangkok
  2004 – Blind Spot Information System, informs the driver of vehicles in the blind spots, using a yellow LED in the A-pillars (S40, V50)
  2005 – door-mounted inflatable curtain airbags (C70)
  2006 – Personal Car Communicator (S80)
  2006 – Collision Warning Brake Support, a system that warns the driver and gives brake support when a collision with another vehicle in front of the car is imminent (S80)
  2006 – Electrical Parking Brake (S80)
  2007 – Driver Alert Control, a driver drowsiness detection system that alerts the driver when the system detects that they are becoming tired (S80, V70, XC70)
  2007 – Lane Departure Warning, a system that warns the driver for unintended lane departures (S80, V70, XC70)
  2007 – Collision Warning with Auto Brake, a system that automatically brakes the car when a collision with another vehicle in front of the car is imminent (S80, V70, XC70)
  2007 – Distance Alert, a system that helps the driver keeping a safe distance to the vehicle ahead, by continuously measuring the distance and lighting up the vehicle's head up display if the time gap becomes shorter than what the driver has specified (S80, V70, XC70)
  2007 – Alcoguard, a hand-held device that the driver blows into before they can start the car, mainly aimed for the company-car sector, taxi operators, state authorities and municipalities (S80, V70, XC70)
  2008 – City Safety, a system that automatically brakes the car at speeds below 30 km/h (19 mph) if an obstruction is detected in front of the car (new XC60)
  2010 – Pedestrian Detection with Auto Brake, a system that warns the driver and automatically brakes the car when a collision with a pedestrian in front of the car is imminent (S60)
  2012 – pedestrian airbag, covering the A-pillars and the lower part of the windscreen in case of collision with a pedestrian (Volvo V40)
  2012 – knee airbag, for the driver (V40)
  2012 – Upgraded City Safety, now working up to 50 km/h (31 mph) (S80, V70, XC70, XC60, S60, V60, new V40)
  2012 – Lane Keeping Aid, a system that steers the car back into the lane again if it is about to unintentionally drift out of the lane (V40)
  2012 – Road Sign Information, a system that reads road signs and displays them in the information display, thereby helping the driver to remember speed limits, no-ove
caption: The Amazon was noted for its safety features: a padded dashboard, front and rear seat belts, and a laminated windshield.[78]
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