Sentences with phrase «vehicle crash ratings»

Consumers may have heard about yearly vehicle crash ratings being published for all to see, but they may not realize how important they are.

In regards to vehicle crash rates the information is great for Idahoan motorists.

The news is good for Idahoan drivers when it comes to vehicle crash rates.

Not exact matches

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety replicated small front - overlap crashes with seven small SUVs that received good ratings after the front driver's side corner of the vehicle hit a barrier at 40 mph.

«Coupled with only an «acceptable» rating in roof strength, our concern there is these types of vehicles tend to be involved in a lot of single - vehicle crashes and single - vehicle crashes with rollovers.»

And trucks have a crash rate 28 percent lower than that of any other vehicles.

«According to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, approximately one in four of all motor vehicle crashes that involve children occur from the side, and these crashes result in a significantly higher injury rate than front or rear crashes.»

While the rate of deaths in motor vehicle crashes in children under age 16 has decreased substantially — dropping 45 percent between 1997 and 2009 — it is still the leading cause of death for children ages 4 and older.

«Car crash survival rates increase with being younger, male and driving a big vehicle.»

One question asked respondents to rate the morality of an autonomous vehicle programmed to crash and kill its own passenger to save 10 pedestrians; the rating dropped by a third when respondents considered the possibility of riding in such a car.

Of the 32 vehicles tested, 19 earned a Good or Acceptable rating for small front - overlap crashes.

The other crash ratings for all those vehicles are five - star.

In order to earn a Top Safety Pick rating, a vehicle must earn a score of «Good» in five key tests and be available with a basic front crash prevention system.

In order to qualify for the Top Safety Pick + award, a vehicle must have a Good score on all five crashworthiness tests and it must come with a front crash prevention system that earns an Advanced or Superior rating.

The Sorento only offers a front collision warning system, while the IIHS» new criteria requires either an «Advanced» or «Superior» rating from frontal crash prevention systems, meaning that the vehicle must have some active element such as collision mitigation braking.

A new approach to determining a vehicle's overall 5 - star rating that will, for the first time, incorporate advanced crash avoidance technology features, along with ratings for crashworthiness and pedestrian protection.

To earn a Top Safety Pick + designation, vehicles must score a good rating in the moderate overlap front, side, rollover, and rear crash tests, in addition to an acceptable or good rating in the newer, more challenging small overlap front test.

To receive the highest rating of TOP SAFETY PICK +, vehicles must meet the same standards as for the TOP SAFETY PICK, as well as earn an «advanced» or «superior» rating for front crash prevention.

To qualify for 2017 TOP SAFETY PICK, a vehicle must earn good ratings in the driver - side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests, as well as an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention.

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Important: Frontal crash test ratings should be compared only among vehicles of similar weight.

Performance requirements: Participating manufacturers will ensure vehicles have both a forward collision warning system that meets a subset of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's current 5 - Star Safety Ratings program requirements on the timing of driver alerts and an automatic braking system that earns at least an advanced rating in the current Insurance Institute for Highway Safety front crash prevention track tests.

Side, roof strength, front crash prevention, headlights and LATCH ratings can be compared across vehicle categories.

The IIHS annually recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover and rear crashes based on good rating in a series of tests conducted by the Institute.

Safety: Toyota expects the Camry's more robust vehicle architecture to improve crash - test ratings, and 10 standard air bags help to protect occupants in the event of a collision.

Within those groups, vehicles are listed in order of their ratings (good, acceptable, marginal or poor in the Institute's crashworthiness evaluations and headlight evaluations and superior, advanced, basic or not available for front crash prevention).

To earn Top Safety Pick, vehicles must achieve good ratings in the driver - side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests; earn an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention; and also have at least acceptable - rated headlights.

To qualify for the 2018 Top Safety Pick + award, vehicles must earn a good rating in the driver - side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests; an acceptable or good rating in the passenger - side small overlap test; an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention; and a good headlight rating.

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To earn a 2017 Top Safety Pick +, a vehicle must earn good ratings in the five crashworthiness tests and an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention.

The window sticker notes the safety rating of the vehicle overall, in a front - impact crash for both driver and passenger, side impact crash for both front and rear seat occupants, and the vehicle's risk of rolling over.

In order to be named a Top Safety Pick +, a vehicle has to receive a rating of «Good» or «Acceptable» in all five of the crashworthiness tests, and a «Superior» or «Advanced» rating in front crash prevention.

The side impact crash test ratings also apply to Jeep Compass, a vehicle similar to the Patriot but with a different roofline, beginning with 2007 models.

rating on the Crash Avoidance & Mitigation test, which measures the ability of a vehicle to prevent or avoid front crashes.

In order to earn a 2016 Top Safety Pick award, a vehicle is required to earn no less than five good ratings in moderate overlap front, small overlap front, side impact, roof strength, and head restraints, along with a basic rating for front crash prevention.

IIHS evaluated seven 2018 model year vehicles in its passenger - side small overlap crash test, five of which garnered good ratings, including the BMW X1, Mitsubishi Outlander, Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Jeep Compass.

Even though this vehicle received a makeover for 2016, it is still top of the charts in every crash test rating and now comes fully loaded with the Honda Sensing suite of driver assist technology available.

The vehicle received five star ratings for how well it performed in the front, side and rollover crashes.

To get the Plus added to the end of Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn a Top Safety Pick rating in addition to earning an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention.

In order to qualify for a Top Safety Pick, a vehicle has to earn the highest rating on five of the crashworthiness tests, which consists of side crash tests, roof strength, head restraints, moderate overlap front and small overlap front.

The IIHS is focused on testing two aspects when it comes to a vehicle's safety rating: crashworthiness — which rates how well a vehicle protects the drivers and passengers in a crash and crash avoidance — which rates the technology the vehicle has to prevent a crash.

All Subaru vehicles with EyeSight received a Superior rating, the highest possible, for front crash prevention.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent organization that tests vehicles and gives them safety ratings based on their scientific crash prevention research.

Chrysler also released a chart showing several vehicles from the same era that have seen higher fatal crash rates than the Liberty or Grand Cherokee.

The rate of motor vehicle crash deaths per million children younger than 13 is less than a quarter of what it was in 1975.

The study by IIHS» VP of research, Jessica Cicchino, shows that ``... lane departure warning lowers rates of single - vehicle, sideswipe and head - on crashes of all severities by 11 percent and lowers the rates of injury crashes of the same types by 21 percent.»

To qualify for the 2018 award, vehicles must earn a good rating in the driver - side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests; an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention; and an acceptable or good headlight rating.

The Ridgeline pickup achieved a 5 - star Overall Vehicle Rating in the NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) by scoring 5 stars in the frontal crash tests for driver and passenger, 5 stars for side crash tests for both front and rear seats, and 4 stars in the rollover test.

To qualify for Top Safety Pick +, a vehicle must meet the Top Safety Pick criteria, plus earn an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention.

If a vehicle earns a good rating, it means that in a real - world crash of similar severity a driver using a safety belt would be likely to walk away with little or no injury.