Volvo Safety Centre
The new, $81 million Volvo Safety Center 2000 is unique in the automotive industry. It is equipped with technologies and test equipment intended to keep Volvo's safety research at the forefront of the industry. Its innovative, pivoting crash track allows safety engineers in the laboratory to create and analyze all conceivable accident scenarios: front impacts, rear impacts, and every angle in between, plus rollovers. And for the first time, side impacts can be studied with both test cars in motion. Also studied will be impacts between dissimilar vehicles; cars and SUVs, for example. The Volvo Safety Center will yield invaluable information -- information that we look forward to sharing -- that will lead to safer vehicles for the real world.
