Attn: DU Truckers... have you seen this emergency brake system from Volvo?

[tenderfoot]

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[ecstatic]

1. awesome. Of course, the unlucky people who rear end the truck

won't fare as well. Unless they're driving a volvo too?

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Wow, that is great

I want those breaks on everything.

[MissB]

3. That's awesome

My new EV from Volvo has a serious crash avoidance system. Of course the weight of my vehicle pales in comparison to a semi!

[royable]

4. Pretty amazing, but what if pavement is wet or icy?

No such stopping distance....

[marie999]

8. Nothing is perfect.

[3Hotdogs]

5. My Hyundai has one. It doesn't work in sleet.

But it saved my friend's life. We were on a road trip... him on a Harley. Me in the Hyundai.

Stopped in right hand lane. Light changes. We both take off --- when an asshole in th left lane cuts him off to make a right hand turn.

He stopped.

Auto braking system stopped me from hitting him.

[we can do it]

6. Wow

[we can do it]

7. My Subaru has something similar.

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Mine too.

Freaked me out the only time it happened. But so glad it did.

I love my Subaru. ❤️

[Sneederbunk]

9. That child actor earned his pay.

[denbot]

10. My last truck was their 860 Globetrotter model.

Really nice comfort level for the driver but I worried the braking sensor would cause me to start a skid on icy pavement. Volvo heavy trucks are still not fully automated when I stopped driving about 10 months ago, but the wiring from the control panels to the brakes AND power steering have been in place since the 2020 models came out in 2019. They are wired up for autonomous driving right now...

[TomSlick]

12. Impressive.

My Ford Ranger does the same thing but it's one whole lot lighter.

[Hotler]

13. I ran out in front of a car just like that, mom whipped my ass good.

No brake system like back in 1967..... I'm lucky mom didn't let the driver have a swat or two.....

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. I'll be driving one with a similar system in the morning.

One of their VNL 760’s like this



The system installed on our units have a Lane Departure warning system as well as a proximity system for vehicles ahead.

If the truck is being driven with Cruise Control engaged, the unit will slow gently as it catches up to another vehicle, and it does so without warning, and it does so with a HUGE margin - too much, in my opinion, so that you might not notice for a while that instead of doing 67 or 68 (what ours are set at), you’re doing 62.

It will set off an audible warning if you are approaching a slower vehicle at a faster closing speed than the device allows and again, if the cruise is set, the unit will apply the brakes.

If you are in traffic and using the accelerator pedal, the warning system never shuts up, pretty much. The vehicle in front of you has to be pulling away, or the god damned warning tone just keeps going and will drive you nuts!

If you are in traffic and using the cruise, the vehicle will just keep slowing down every time a car changes lanes in front of you. It’s a pain in the ass, frankly.

I prefer to drive the truck myself, thankyouverymuch. I don’t need a bunch of sensors and alarms telling me what I already know! But it’s the wave of the future, to be sure. Engineer the trucks for drivers that don’t pay enough attention to what is going on around them, I suppose.

OK all you folks that think I need to have this in the trucks I drive, go ahead, pile on! Tell me why I’m wrong for wanting to rip the fucking system out by the roots!


OH, and BTW, if you have a Radar detector and it keeps going off in the 24Mhz range, it is all the trucks and cars with similar systems doing that.