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
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
@@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
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
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
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😂
"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!"
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
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
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!
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.
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.
"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.
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
Imagine being the guy whose invention saved 329000 lives
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).
Especially noteworthy is that volvo decided to share the invention with the world, rather than patent it for themselves.
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.
I believe that was for the first gen model and in the UK
That particular rich people tractor is ahead in the size arms race. I wouldn't like my chances against one in my V70.
That's wildd
There are going to be road deaths until people find ways to eliminate accidents altogether (in my opinion)
I have two Volvo XC70s. One is a 2012 and the other is a 2015.5. And not only is the safety top notch, but the build quality too.
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
@@manitobaerial My grandma's daily driver is a Volvo 360, newly bought back when it came out. No major problems, 1.1milion km and still counting.
@@manitobaerial my 2013 s60 polestar is also tuned to 350😁 fucker pulls and makes girls (and myself) giggle like a child
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
Be more worried about distracted drivers than intoxicated drivers.
Or an idiot driver with a gun.
@@rewardilicious both are cancer on roads
I drove a taxi in the DC area for 6 years, then was a courier for 7, so I offer this: When driving, assume everybody is out to get you.
"People are great drivers, but then there is LIFE." - truth
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
When I think about Volvo, its just safety. Their products are made to not kill the passengers
but looking at the size of their new cars, there's a greater chance of death for people that are outside of the car
@@invalidavatar Yeah that's true, but they made a lot of firsts in car safety
How about their maintenance cost and reliability? Are they good?
@@invalidavatar Why bigger car lead to pedestrian danger?
@@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
Well, 329.000 lives worldwide saved by seatbelt until 2012 is a grossly understated number.
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.
Honestly, probably the most ethical car company
I love my 2004 s40 Volvo! Aka vulva 😂 no but in all seriousness… Volvo’s are amazing cars!
I just found a new name for my Volvo
@@JJomoro me too
It is good to see that someone taking great efforts for people's comfort and safety
"how volvo recreates real car crashes"
Shows a car being dropped form 98 feet.
That is because they can only simulate up to around 100 km/h in the building. And crashes appear at greater speed than that....
Maybe they're recreating running off cliff
@@emptiness3390 or suicide mission...
what if it was also to simulate a car falls of a cliff or a bridge?
1ton × 9.8/s etc etc forgot my physics but probably fast high way airborne car crash its reliable
This really show manufacturers care
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.
6:12 new Volvo SUV in the background.
It's the C40
I'd love to work there. I'd get up early and look forward going to work everyday
Honestly a ton of people would love to work here just totally demolishing cars
@@lorissantarsiero5849 it's like playing car crushers in real life 😂
Volvo recreates the stuff what will not happen that way if it happens it is tested!
What? Non English speaker?
OML
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)"
2:16 Gôtt mos änna 🇸🇪 And no, his thick accent is not faked 😏
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
What happened to "Vision 2020", that no person will be killed or seriously injured in a Volvo by 2020?
They are very close to that. As an example: 2004 the XC90 was introduced in the UK. There have been ZERO deaths in an XC90 in the UK....
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
Excellent documentary
Does every company have something like this? Cause if not I want a Volvo.
I like volvo's less body rolling test
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😂
If somebody is trying to bully me on the street..."am I supposed to be intimidated? I drive a Volvo [850]!" And keep going along as before.
Car companies should follow Volvo. Be like Volvo
Truly for the people
You can't make an omlette without breaking a few -----
Volvo : my car a tank tho 😎
sounds like a fun job lol
They will never cancel out stupidity.
"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!"
Thats why I drive Volvo XC40.
volvo literally created a particle accelerator for cars
AWESOME.
the IIHS and NHTSA need to dynamically flip vehicles. That compression crush test is cool but not the whole picture in a roll ovee
I agree, different cars flip differently due to their shape and construction. IIHS is good, but most certainly can be even better. No clue about NHTSA
@@navb0tactual i dont get why they all cant just have a roll test. on a slider or some thing that really flips shit over.
I love this car brand called volvo
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
We have 5 volvos
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.
Ah yes sleazy electronics companies that spends billions for decades in rnd and barely stays aflot should give away everything for free.
Wow
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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
The sequence’s in the video are from when Volvo introduced the SPA platform (2016). In other words, a lot has changed since that.
Being a Volvo owner, this is so hard to watch...
Oh my God right?! Those poor babies
No one will buy a car if everyone are dead, other company need to learn this lol :P
Word has it that whislin diesel works here.
Yea, car free falling from 20meters high, very realistic crash
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!
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 you're nitpicking bro
@@ChunkyWaterisReal how?
@@carsandcrashtests overall they're the safest on the road to this day.
@@ChunkyWaterisReal That's your opinion, but that's not a fact.
A tank strenght installed in a car. That's volvo.
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.
these ads getting crazy now
I don't think you should judge the safety of the car based on usa dangerous road lay out and seed limit
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.
I chose to be the heavier then
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
I think Volvo is trying to fire NCAP.
"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.
Your attempted arrogance and holier-than-most whining is completely nullified by your gradeschool-level misuse of "their."
"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.
Shifting to public transit and walkable cities will help make everyone safer even the people who still want to drive
@@andersonneil2293 i wonder if the states will ever realize that
We already have a Really low death toll in traffic in Sweden. Kind of the leader, and that is despite cold and slippery and shitty road conditions.
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.
God Bless America
And God Bless Volvo
How is the USA involved in any of this?
@@OltsuSuomesta he’s prob from the US
@@OltsuSuomesta Volvo has a factory in the US 🤷♂️ I’m more confused about the God part 😉
They should cooperate with tesla
Wish they broke down less 😭
I don't think this really matters when us Americans can't even protect our children. If we can't do that, all of this is ancillary.
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.
Or even better, reducing the number of cars
That's the government and community job, not the responsibility of the car manufacturers.
@@bltzcstrnx Yeah, I'm, saying we as humanity,
Long story short they crash a car😒
1st
Aah Volvo, the chinese owned swedish brand
What does this have to do with safety?
@00:25 it will never reach 0.
Volvos are so boring people will commit suicide.
Volvo is so safe that it is hard to suicide with it.
@@leeo268 If I had one I would probably put it on drive and lay in front of it. Would that do it?
The new gen Volvos be watching like 👁👄👁
@@Shadow__133 the car will say "let this idiot live" and it will drop the anchor...
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.
As impressive as that would be, I really don’t think there is a substitute for the real thing.
They actually kind of do. They simulate and simulate and simulate and simulate and... and then they do it for real to validate the simulation.
@@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
@@Xanthopteryx : Yes ... but what will this look like in the near future?
AI isn't perfect and can make a really bad mistakes sometime. Which is not something you want in your car's safety features.
2 EMTs told me that Volvo wagons CAUSE more accidents than any other car.
Maybe because those drivers feel so safe that they are careless.
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
@@invalidavatar what do you mean that the new cars are lethal to the people outside them
@@Thomas_Smaling they're more fatal to people that are not in cars or in smaller cars
@@invalidavatar so like the big suvs? Which are pointless anyway, just a dumb trend, they a petrol thirsty dangerous and block your view on turns
thats total cap. according to the NHTSA Volvo isn't even on the top 25 cars involved in fatal accidents in the US
Three point safetybelt saves almost 5% how many killed by COVID.
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
Wdym . Volvo usually open sources their findings . They gave out the sauce to air bags .
They do...... And they share data for free.
From that perspective you should be driving only Volvo and not undermine the quest to zero fatality. Yeah I didn’t think so…
After all of this they still can't build a car safer than a TESLA.
That woman getting the seatbelt tested on her... all I can say is men be nasty 🤢
go cry on twitter
They were just doing their jobs. That's how feminism is nowadays... say something when nothing needs to be said
Explain.
Based off that? Get a life
What do you mean? Maybe my English is too bad to understand this.
Still not as safe as a Tesla.
Good joke haha.