Volvo DYNAMIC STEERING, anyone have it?

Therefore, whenever they release Tesla class A truck with 2000 mile battery range, I am buying it. If I have enough money, of course.

 

It is still futuristic but imagine the simplicity of electric engines...that alone is something good.

 

For the short time I worked at Volvo I saw quite a few trucks with dynamic steering. Never had any issues related too it. Very easy to maneuver around the yard, especially trucks with heavier front ends like a VHD rock slinger, ect.

 

Back to the subject at hand @Siinman, my buddy runs a 2020 860 and I'm pretty sure he has it. He didn't name it by name but the other day we were talking about tech and he asked me if I had ever seen a new Volvo flip over. I had to say after thinking about it a bit, I haven't. Sure, you CAN flip anything. You can drive the safest vehicle there is off a cliff and you'll flip it, but he had a point. All the new tech in these things like traction control, speed sensors at every wheel, ESC-electronis stability control, dynamic steering (which probably means all of this stuff) I see all of this as a good thing.

I hate the flip side of this technology starting way back with auto inflation and automatic transmissions. It's dumbing down drivers and big companies take advantage of it and put humans with single digit IQ's in 80 lb. trucks, but I still like the technology.

 

I run old stuff (trucks) because we don't put many miles on it, I understand it, and I like it, and there is definitely something to being able to feel the road. I don't believe there is a cost-effective solution in buying new with our limited use of our trucks (less than 50k miles per year). That said, I have nothing against new technology and use it in our earthmoving business a lot. What I REALLY don't like about technology, is when some minor electrical sender of other malfunction can render the truck or equipment useless until one has a chance to get it hooked up to a laptop (dealer) to clear something that really should not impact the normal use of that equipment. Cat (probably many others) has satellite connection to all new equipment, and they can read codes and determine equipment location sitting at their desk at the dealership. All this technology will really make sense when, after one pays an outlandish price for a piece of equipment that one really cannot work on himself, the price includes live updates and corrections, while on the road, to keep that equipment running with minimal downtime. Imagine going down the road and having some error message pop up and then being contacted by the manufacturer with instructions as to how to proceed, be it find a place to shut down for a bit while they do further diagnosis, or drive normally while they monitor and diagnose the condition, etc.

It seems we are currently stuck between the old and the new just waiting for things to get better, and they are indeed getting better, whether I like it or not.

 

Looked it up. Pretty cool