Volvo Buses launches pedestrian detection

Volvo Buses has unveiled a pedestrian and cyclist detection system for buses, which it plans to introduce on its European city bus fleet in 2017. The pedestrian and cyclist detection system uses a camera to continuously monitor the bus’s vicinity. When the system detects unprotected road-users near the bus, it transmits a sound to warn other road-users that the bus is approaching. At the same time, the bus driver is alerted via sound and light signals inside the vehicle. If there is an imminent risk of a
October 10, 2016 Read time: 1 min
609 Volvo Buses has unveiled a pedestrian and cyclist detection system for buses, which it plans to introduce on its European city bus fleet in 2017.

The pedestrian and cyclist detection system uses a camera to continuously monitor the bus’s vicinity. When the system detects unprotected road-users near the bus, it transmits a sound to warn other road-users that the bus is approaching. At the same time, the bus driver is alerted via sound and light signals inside the vehicle. If there is an imminent risk of an incident, the bus’s horn is activated.

The system will become operational this autumn on field tests in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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