Volvo Cars, a Swedish car company, is going to set a cloud-based safety technology to the test this year, revealed Kias Bendrik, the vice president and chief information officer of Volvo Cars, on a phone interview with the Global Times.
The Swedish auto company, handled by the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is running a safety technology solution that has the ability to connect drivers with cyclists. The showcase by the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ran for the first time in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Tuesday through Friday.
Volvo Cars recently presented an 8.9-percent increase in international car sales last year with a whopping record of 464,866. Volvo, according to its annual sales report, has high sales in China and Western Europe.
In China, the Swedish company's total retail sales grew by 32.8 percent with 81,221 sales in cars, as stated in the report.
Volvo paired up with POC, a Swedish protective sports gear maker, and Ericsson, another Swedish communications company, to develop a technology that comprises of a cloud-connected car and a helmet prototype that can give Volvo drivers and cyclists proximity alerts while on the road to avert any possible accidents or collisions.
The car company faced structural overcapacity and double-digit growth and have already seen to it that it would no longer continue, as they are telling other car manufacturers to assert on innovations that have a blend of smart-connected technologies with car production, according to the former chairman of the Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Zuo Yan'an in a conference in Beijing in Dec. 2014.
Other possibilities arose in developing similar technology that would address the safety of the pedestrians.
"Now we are just in the beginning of exploring the domain of connected safety," Bendrik noted, suggesting that impending solutions of a similar fashion is played down.
China will likely be one of the first countries to be marketed with the new cloud-based technology when it becomes commercially available, Bendrik mentioned. He did not connote when it would be available though.