The Volvo V40 of the Swedish company Volvo is a car that goes far beyond what we consider today as basic technologies in any modern car. The airbag for pedestrians, the cyclist’s detection system and full integration with mobile technology are just some of the features that make the Volvo V40 a very special car that hides all kinds of technological innovations that should be emphasized point by point.
The first point to be noted in the Volvo V40 is the security since the end of the day this is a decisive factor when buying a car. Starting at the front of the car, particularly in the hood, we find an innovative pedestrian airbag that is an important added safety that seeks to reduce the maximum possible damage that may receive the pedestrian who suffers a hit. At the time of impact with the pedestrian, the Volvo V40 an airbag deploys automatically at the same time prevents the pedestrian head impact directly against the side pillars of the car , offers enough viewing angle so that the driver can stop the car safely without ever losing sight of the scene before him.
In order to protect the driver itself, the Volvo V40 has several technologies to minimize the risk of human factor driving. The most notable system face a car use in town is the City Safety, an active system up to 50 km / h which detects obstacles through an infrared sensor and performs an automatic braking if necessary. Another example of security intended to the road system is the blind spot detection ( BLIS ), which unlike previous models Volvo is not integrated in the rear but works through sensors located in the rear (both left and right) of the car. The system of bicycle and pedestrian detection, applies both to city road, is able to differentiate these obstacles through the radar and the front car cameras with the aim of implementing a complete braking if the driver fails time to respond to these contingencies.
These systems also have to add other driving aids such as adaptive cruise control (ACC), which allows us to maintain a constant speed respecting the distance you specify with the car in front of us, or Queue Assist, designed to detecting congestion on the road and, if it is necessary, brake the car to avoid collision.
But what really interested in any technology lover is the appearance of the mobile connectivity of the Volvo V40. The Swedish company Volvo has decided to implement a system like this car called Volvo On Call, which allows users to be in constant contact with the Volvo V40 through a mobile or tablet. The connection is made from a mobile device through the implementation of Volvo On Call (available for both Android and for iOS), and from this application the user can perform all tasks related to the car: check consumption and autonomy remaining, open car doors, check if the windows are rolled up, locate the car on the map and even broadcast multiple touches of horn in the event that we are unable to find the car in a parking lot. This linkage system between the car and mobile will increasingly having more presence in the automotive world, and indeed the French manufacturer Peugeot has recently launched an application called as MyPeugeot that connects the new Peugeot 308 SW with any smartphone.
At the same time, the Volvo V40 has a system that allows the user to insert a card SIM through which is possible from the car all kinds of functions related to Internet. So much so that the browser itself incorporates car applications such as TuneIn (an application of radio podcasts and broadcasters around the world), Yelp (an application that allows us to know the views of users on certain sites, but only from the car we can see the views already created, so to write a review we use another device) or even Weather (application time). Of course, that whole system running smoothly it will be necessary that we have a flat rate data in our card SIM (ie, unlimited data usage).
Volvo V40, a car that is controlled from the mobile
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