Volvo SCC

2001 Volvo Safety Concept Car Volvo built the SCC around a simple question: what can the driver actually see? Cameras in the door mirrors watched the blind spot, and Volvo began fitting its camera-based Blind Spot Information System to production models at the end of 2004. Blind-spot warning is now common on new cars. Not every idea made it. The see-through A-pillars, built from a metal frame filled with clear plastic, never went on sale. That mixed record is what makes it useful here: it shows which kind of idea survives contact with a factory.