.IIHS_Autosafety plans for higher speed crash testing:
New vehicles are regularly passing the Insurance Institue for Highway Safety's vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention with flying colors, with 85 percent of the 2022 vehicles tested managing to hit the Top Safety Pick+ level.The group is considering increasing the speed limits for this test to maybe 35 or 45, which is when more crashes like this happen.is about to take another step forward.
For the 2022 model year, 85 percent of all the cars IIHS tested reached this level, mostly because automakers have been busy addingto their vehicles, part of a voluntary commitment made with IIHS and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . IIHS reported that last year 12 major automobile manufacturers equipped almost all of their light-duty vehicles with AEB—ahead of the agreed-upon deadline of September 2022.
IIHS researchers found that only 3 percent of the rear-end crashes they had police reports for happened at the low speeds today's test looks at . Raising the test speed to between 35 and 45 mph would match the real-world speeds where more accidents happen. A 45-mph limit would cover 43 percent of the police-reported rear-end crashes and 12 percent of fatal rear-end crashes, IIHS found.
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