Gothenburg Trip – Day 4 (Gothenburg World of Volvo Museum – Volvo Experimental Safety Car)

This is the Volvo Experimental Safety Car, developed in 1972 to show off some key new safety elements that the company wanted to introduce.

The front of the car and there’s a safety measure visible there, with the extra long bumper which was designed to allow for someone to survive a collision at 80 kmph.

Inside the car which was fitted with an air bag.

And here’s an early rear screen camera set-up with the less than subtle screen placed on the front dashboard.

And there’s the rear camera.

Volvo produced three concept cars in this safety series and, although I don’t know much about car companies, even I’m aware that they have a formidable reputation for manufacturing safe vehicles.