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Only One Small SUV Earned A Good Rating In New Crash Prevention Test
28.04.2024 - 13:53 / forbes.com / David Harkey
In an updated test that evaluated the performance of the crash avoidance systems of 10 popular, small SUVs, few models excelled. Only the 2023-24 Subaru Forester earned a good rating.
The first results of the new vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention testing program, aimed to encourage automakers to improve crash avoidance systems, were announced on Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry.
“The vast majority of new vehicles now come with automatic emergency braking,” David Harkey, the Insurance Institute’s president, said in a statement, “and our research shows the technology prevents as many as half of all front-to-rear crashes. This new, tougher evaluation targets some of the most dangerous front-to-rear crashes that are still happening.”
The ratings range from best to worst, were: good, acceptable, marginal and poor.
The Subaru Forester is the only small SUV that earned a good rating. During the testing, it avoided a collision with the passenger car target at every test speed, avoided hitting the motorcycle target at 31 and 37 mph, and slowed by an average of 30 mph before hitting the motorcycle target in the 43 mph tests, researchers said. “The forward collision warning alerts also came more than the required 2.1 seconds before the projected time of impact in all those trials and also in those conducted with the trailer,” according to the report.
The Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 garnered an acceptable rating; the Ford Escape, Hyundai Tucson and Jeep Compass earned marginal ratings, and the Chevrolet Equinox, Mazda CX-5, Mitsubishi Outlander and Volkswagen Taos were rated poor.
This new program builds on the success of the institute’s original front crash prevention program, researchers said, which only addressed low-speed crashes and only included passenger cars.
The updated test addressed crashes that occurred at higher speeds - of up to 43 mph -and for the first time evaluated how well they detected stopped motorcycles and large trucks, in addition to passenger cars. In trials, passenger car and motorcycle forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems were evaluated, but only truck forward collision warning systems were assessed.
While real-world data indicate that front crash prevention systems are eliminating higher-speed crashes, according to the report, the original test didn’t provide a way to gauge the performance of specific systems at those higher speeds.
Additional research by the safety group showed that today’s systems are less effective at preventing crashes with motorcycles and medium or heavy trucks than they are at preventing crashes with other passenger vehicles.
Tests were run at all three
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