“Now I can drive a little faster and be a little less attentive, because I know my Volvo will stop itself if necessary.”
It will be like how ABS brakes reduced the number of accidents for a while until people started to depend on them to cover for their own reduced driving skills.
ABS has not had any such effect ~ however, you can turn it off, and as it became mandatory, you of course ran up against the marketplace yahoos who don’t believe computers can out think them.
This times 1M. I work auto claims and you can't imagine how many people will blame their rear sensors for not going off (or saying the person wasn't there because they didn't). Except, of course, they were there or we wouldn't be talking. Or the people that only use their rear cameras to back. I can't wait until we start getting the claims from the cars that parallel park themselves, but fail.
“Now I can drive a little faster and be a little less attentive, because I know my Volvo will stop itself if necessary.”
Out here in Californicator land, Volvo drivers seem to fall into two categories:
1. My Volvo is super safe, and I can do really stupid things while driving it over any speed limit.
2. Then, the opposite, Volvos are intended to drive several miles below the speed limit and in the fast/passing lane if possible. These are driven the Green freaks.
We know one family that falls into both categories. The 3 males who have each destroyed a Volvo station wagon are in the first category.
The women, mother/daughter, fall into the second category.
The guys are now working on destroying a Pius/male. They have totalled 2 so far. Their 6 year old Tundra looks like a vehicle that was entered into a lot of crash a ramas. Their insurance agent probably takes a lot of cruise with their insurance has banned them from driving their Tundra except in their vineyard and will not insure any of the males in a Volvo.