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As the representative of "the safest car in the world", Volvo has won the favor of many consumers by relying on safety. The Swedish carmaker recently announced a number of new measures to improve vehicle safety, including gradually limiting the top speed of its 2020 Volvo passenger cars to 180km/h. The move aims to reduce casualties among drivers and road traffic participants, so as to realize Volvo's vision of "zero casualties". In fact, the company announced the move as early as March 2019 and will have a speed limiter for all new models after 2020, limiting the top speed to the 180km/h.

Volvo said that through the study found that speeding is one of the most important factors leading to traffic accident casualties. If an accident occurs after the vehicle reaches a certain speed, no safety technology can prevent death or serious injury, and the installation of speed limiter will reduce this injury to a certain extent.

Volvo CEO said that Volvo is a leader in automotive safety, while limiting speed to the 180km/h is not a panacea, but if we can save even one life, then it is worth doing.

According to a set of new product declaration information released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the top speed of both Volvo S90 and Volvo S60 models is limited to 180km/h, which means that the top speed of domestic Volvo models is also limited to 180km / h.

Limiting the maximum speed of a vehicle still solves the problem of the car. Throughout the world, the speed of 180km/h can only be achieved in Germany, where there is no speed limit, while 180km/h already belongs to the category of serious speeding in other countries, including China, and these car owners simply do not have the opportunity to drive to 180km/h, so this measure has little effect on most countries.

On the other hand, in the collision test standards of IIHS and NHTSA in the United States, E-NCAP in Europe, C-IASI and C-NCAP in China, the collision data are mostly obtained in the range of 50-65km/h. When the speed exceeds 100km/h, the chance of survival of the drivers and passengers in the car is very small. If you drive to 180km/h per hour, in the event of a collision, no matter what the car is, the chances of survival of the people in the car are very small, so Volvo's move does not play a good targeted role.

In any case, although Volvo proposed this measure has no practical effect, but for car companies to propose such a measure is also to demonstrate its sense of responsibility, so Volvo's move can also be used as a way to convey the concept of "the safest car."

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