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Apr 16th, 2019, 18:38 | #1 |
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Volvo models across Europe to warn each other
Volvo models across Europe to warn each other of slippery roads and hazards
Free? https://www.media.volvocars.com/glob...ds-and-hazards |
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Apr 16th, 2019, 21:03 | #2 |
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Interesting, they've been doing this in their commercials for a while too, good to see it coming to the rest of Europe.
Can't imagine its anything more than a software update that then pings the data for your TCS and hazard light activation back up to VoC?
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It says available to my20 and retrofit to “some” earlier models. Sounds like $$ upgrade not software update - for whatever reason.
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By upgrading earlier SPA models this will speed up the availability of this feature to the MY20 models to everyone’s benefit.
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You just wait until 5G becomes normalised. We can only imagine the possibilities of what our cars could be connected to, such as coordinating with others to manage traffic lights to minimise congestion, to road charging intelligently, to surveillance tracking of your position and speed by lord knows who or why. It's the future and the machines will take over. Are you ready for that? Governments are all for it, including autonomous vehicles, which will not be autonomous at all because they will be 'connected' and this able to be remotely controlled for good or evil. It's all about power and control which they will probably justify on 'safety' and 'security' grounds.
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But you can bet it won't be for those of us with MY 2019 cars. If Volvo were serious about safety in a magnanimous way they would offer it as a software upgrade at next service.
The pigs are fully fuelled and ready to fly.......
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So you know for a fact that it's software only?
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Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert is available on all Volvos based on the company’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) or Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) from model year 2016 and onwards.So basically it's most of our cars apart from the earliest production XC90s (MY15). I suspect it's a software-only update as HLA would simply be detecting that the hazard lights have been activated (either manually or automatically) and SRA could be determined from the existing ABS, gyro and temperature sensors. It would make sense for it to be a free update to maximise it's potential. However, the accountants may take a different view.
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