It seems that insurers NRMA Insurance, SGIO and SGIC are taking an important step in encouraging the uptake of smarter vehicles by offering insurance discounts to people driving the Volvo XC60, which features “City Safety” technology. City Safety actively monitors traffic in front of the vehicle and stops the vehicle if it detects imminent collisions at relative speeds up to 30km/h, which should cover about 75% of fender bender accidents (and thus dramatically reduce insurance claims for such).
Now if only it wasn’t an SUV. Presumably Volvo will be rolling the technology into the rest of their vehicles as part of their 2020 Zero Crash initiative.
