This Is How The World's First Blind Spot Monitor Worked On The 2003 Volvo XC90

This Is How The World's First Blind Spot Monitor Worked On The 2003 Volvo XC90

Crane your neck really hard. Adjust your mirrors really wide. There were lots of suggestions about how to see in blind spots. Then came the 2003 Volvo XC90.

This Is How The World's First Blind Spot Monitor Worked On The 2003 Volvo XC90 - Data Intelligence

That sickening feeling. You check your mirrors, signal, start to merge, and bam! Horns blare, and suddenly there’s a car where you swore there was only sweet, empty asphalt. Blind spots, the bane of drivers, the phantom menace of the highway. For years, the solution was a purely analog combination of “Crank your neck like you’re trying to spot a UFO” and the ever-reliable “Adjust your darn mirrors!” But then Volvo, those glorious Swedes obsessed…