In the next issue of the Volvo blog-the new long drive, this time it is represented by the editor-in-chief of the Stolnik magazine Irina Mozgovaya. Confident personal view of the character of a car without deepening into technical features. On this side, you have not yet considered the new XC60.
According to Martin Magnusson, a project security designer Volvo: “The driver can be distracted, the system can not”. I would put this characteristic by the first line in the description of Volvo XC60. When you get behind the wheel of a new car, the advertising slogans, such as this: “The perfect car for demanding drivers in search of adventures – in the city and beyond” will not meet you with friendly messages. But the security system XC60 – communicates with the driver not as an example more actively. Therefore, to evaluate how the all -wheel drive XC60 with the fourth -generation Haldex electromagnetic coupling will behave on a snowy winter adventure highway, I will provide men, I will do it much easier, I will write about the sensations.
What was the main one in a couple of days of communication? Sensation of safety that the car gives its driver. The City Safety system is able to completely stop the car at speeds up to 30 km/h. Cameras monitor road markings, dead zones, borders, oncoming and pedestrians. The car can delay the incoming phone call while turning… The rear view camera is complemented by trajectory tips – and zoom.
Monitoring of blind zones is unobtrusive – the bulbs on the racks do not blink, but wink, if I may say so. The level of fatigue of the driver XC60 determines by the indications of the position sensors of the steering wheel and the gas pedal, but we are not well familiar so that Volvo can determine my habits. But behind the signs of speed restrictions he watched properly, recalling me a signal to return to the corridor limited by the rules.
Somewhere at this point, an experienced driver will ask the question of how to indulge with all these functions, personal driving style? The whole charm is that XC60 does not impose assistants – all auxiliary equipment can be simply disabled. But why turn off the bodyguard?