Volvo makes some of the safest cars on the planet, but it isn't immune to safety recalls. As standard, every Volvo is equipped with automatic emergency braking to help prevent accidents, but the technology is redundant if it fails to detect an obstacle. Unfortunately, this is a problem that has potentially affected hundreds of thousands of Volvo cars worldwide.



Last year, when testing the automatic driving systems installed in a Volvo XC60, Danish motoring body FDM discovered that the automatic emergency brake consistently failed as the car didn't automatically apply the brakes when approaching an obstacle that would normally activate the system.