A Camera for your Blind Spot

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Volvo Launches Blind Spot Information System (BLIS)
Once the butt of jokes for its unfashionable safety conscious outlook, Volvo’s active safety research continues to impress. The company’s new Blind Spot Information System now recognises cars and motorcycles with a camera-based monitoring system that keeps a watchful eye on the ‘blind’ area alongside and offset rear of the car.

I want one for my Volvo! (770) This is a digital camera that lights an amber led next to your mirror to let you know that something is in your blind spot.

The company has always focussed on improving blind spot vision becoming the first car maker to fit wide-angle door mirrors in 1979. The new BLIS will be offered as an option on XC70 wagon, S60 sedan and V70 wagon available in Australia in 2005.

BLIS is configured not to react to parked cars, road barriers, lampposts and other static objects. The system is active at all speeds above 10km/h. It reacts to vehicles that are driven a maximum of 20km/h slower and a maximum of 70km/h faster than the car itself.

Is that cool or what? There is that blind spot just outside of the side mirrors. The smaller wide angle mirrors cover most of that. A little led being lit would alert you to make that extra effort to look around some more.

Originally posted 2008-08-23 03:30:00.

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