Afraid of the man hiding in your backseat? Volvo's got you covered

Nebor

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At a range of 60 to 100 metres when approaching the car, you can obtain a security status report by pressing the information button. Different LEDs then tell you if the car is locked or unlocked, others whether somebody has interfered with the vehicle and caused the alarm to go off. A flashing red light means that the heartbeat sensor has been activated and that there is an intruder in the car.

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I'd love to be working in Volvo's marketing department. Great chance to make a commercial out of the person in the backseat campfire story.
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
I'd love to be working in Volvo's marketing department. Great chance to make a commercial out of the person in the backseat campfire story.

Volvo doesn't have a marketing department. Have you ever seen one of their commercials? The newest are these stupid "News break" jobs that look like they were written and produced by middle schoolers.
 

iamwiz82

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Originally posted by: ISAslot
For some reason, I would still feel the need to check for myself

Obviously, this stupid heartbeat sensor is useless for zombies. :roll:

Stupid Volvo.

:p
 

Ika

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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: ISAslot
For some reason, I would still feel the need to check for myself

Obviously, this stupid heartbeat sensor is useless for zombies. :roll:

Stupid Volvo.

:p

I know what you're saying. I *almost* got attacked by a zombie. I'm just glad someone warned me before I got into my car. "There's a zombie in your backseat, get out!!!"
 

kranky

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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: ISAslot
For some reason, I would still feel the need to check for myself

Obviously, this stupid heartbeat sensor is useless for zombies. :roll:

Stupid Volvo.

:p

:D

Or robots! "Robots are strong, and they eat old people's medicine for food."
 

CVSiN

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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: ISAslot
For some reason, I would still feel the need to check for myself

Obviously, this stupid heartbeat sensor is useless for zombies. :roll:

Stupid Volvo.

:p

hahahaha or Vampires!~
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
I'd love to be working in Volvo's marketing department. Great chance to make a commercial out of the person in the backseat campfire story.

Volvo doesn't have a marketing department. Have you ever seen one of their commercials? The newest are these stupid "News break" jobs that look like they were written and produced by middle schoolers.

I don't think I've seen any.
 

eLiu

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Now they just need to strap one of those 'DREAD' (see another ATOT post) guns on the roof and you're good to go :D
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: ISAslot
For some reason, I would still feel the need to check for myself

Obviously, this stupid heartbeat sensor is useless for zombies. :roll:

Stupid Volvo.

:p

:D

Or robots! "Robots are strong, and they eat old people's medicine for food."

or ninjas! ninjas can stop their heart beating for several minutes in order to maximize the stealth!
 

Queasy

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Volvo also needs to install either

a) Spikes that shoot out of the seats and floorboard to kill the intruder

or

b) An ejection seat to get rid of the intruder

or

c) An ejection seat with spikes to get rid of and kill the intruder
 

Kaido

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How the heck does a heartbeat sensor work?

One of the things I hate about modern cars is the over-gadgetry. My wife is currently leasing an 05 New Beetle which has weight sensors in the seats. I drove it to school one day and the seat belt beeper kept going off. I couldn't figure it out since I had my seat belt on. Turns out the weight sensor was sensing my backpack with all my books in it and assumed it was a passenger without a seatbelt. Had to put it on the floor. Dumb little things like that bug me :p
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Volvo also needs to install either

a) Spikes that shoot out of the seats and floorboard to kill the intruder

or

b) An ejection seat to get rid of the intruder

or

c) An ejection seat with spikes to get rid of and kill the intruder

How about just getting a Trunk Monkey and being done?
 

iamwiz82

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Originally posted by: Kaido
How the heck does a heartbeat sensor work?

One of the things I hate about modern cars is the over-gadgetry. My wife is currently leasing an 05 New Beetle which has weight sensors in the seats. I drove it to school one day and the seat belt beeper kept going off. I couldn't figure it out since I had my seat belt on. Turns out the weight sensor was sensing my backpack with all my books in it and assumed it was a passenger without a seatbelt. Had to put it on the floor. Dumb little things like that bug me :p

Our Jeep has one too. Lola is too light to keep the passenger airbag on fulltime, so as we are driving the airbag light pulsates on and off :p
 

mindmaniac

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I wonder how many years until it is available? I want to replace my S80 in the next two years and that would ge a cool option.
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: mindmaniac
I wonder how many years until it is available? I want to replace my S80 in the next two years and that would ge a cool option.

The new S80 will be available later this year.
 

mundane

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Queasy
Volvo also needs to install either

a) Spikes that shoot out of the seats and floorboard to kill the intruder

or

b) An ejection seat to get rid of the intruder

or

c) An ejection seat with spikes to get rid of and kill the intruder

How about just getting a Trunk Monkey and being done?

I'd think being able to selectively electrocute each seat with voltages ranging from 'tingle' to 'fried chicken' would be a great selling point.

Loud kids in the backseat? Set it to STFU mode. Oh, and robots are very vulnerable to electric elemental attacks (or was it water?)
 

Shame

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It should require less interaction. ie. Just filling the car up with halon gas.