http://www.hotwired.com/Coin/Spnsrs/Volvo/940/Specs/dyn.html (The Risc Disc Volume 2, 10/1995)
Minimizing injury due to an accident (Passive Safety), while critically important, does not encompass all of safety design. Of equal importance is a vehicle's ability to avoid involvement in a collision (Dynamic Safety).
Dynamic Safety certainly offers the preferable alternative. Everyone agrees that the best way to avoid accident related injury is to avoid the accident.
Predictability plays a fundamental role in sound Dynamic Safety design. An automobile that responds with sure-footed consistency gains the driver's confidence and sharpens the driver's ability to react effectively when the unexpected occurs.
Effectively communicating the feel of the road to the driver provides the final and crucial link in Dynamic Safety design. That critical driver/chassis connection is achieved with faithful precision through the 940's sensitive yet neutral power-assisted rack and pinion steering.
While Dynamic and Passive Safety address two separate and distinct aspects of sound safety design, it is interesting, but not surprising, that they share a common reliance on the heart of all Volvo safety design - the rugged and ingenious Volvo chassis.
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