A Family Of Over Achievers: Model 3 Follows Model S And Model X With PERFECT Crash Safety Scores

These results are industry standard, wouldn't expect or accept anything less in 2018. Would be interesting to see the Model 3 undergo IIHS's small overlap test. The Model S failed the small overlap test twice in a row... Hopefully the Model 3 will do better.

Care to place your bet AGENT009?

Congrats on meeting the standard that most other vehicles in the same class also met.

Remember when the Model S achieved similar (contextual) results back in 2012 or so, and Elon Musk insisted that the Model S was "the safest vehicle ever tested" or something to that effect? That should have been the tip off for all the half truths and possible misinformation to come.

Sure, downplay it all you want. Most other vehicles in the same class did NOT meet this standard.

The safety rating already beats every 2018 BMW 3 series, Audi A4, Mercedes C class, and even the Lexus IS.

Look em up yourself https://www.nhtsa.gov/ratings

Well, we need to understand what that IIHS number means. Part of that score has nothing to do with crash injuries. It is comprised of ticking boxes for the presence of various "crash avoidance" technologies, which, by the way, are unproven, and have nothing to do with reducing injuries in a crash. (Their alleged benefit is in AVOIDING a crash.)

Due to the changes in how the ratings are calculated, you can actually have a scenario in which an older car, calculated using the older formula, has BETTER crash survivability than a newer car, scored by the newer calculations, and which has a higher rating, just because it has some gizmos.

My strong preference is to have a crash rating number that is purely about injuries (or lack of them) in a crash. If you want to talk about alleged goodness due to possible crash avoidance, then have a separate rating for that. Don't muddy the waters and lead consumers to wrong conclusions.

Just a simple example, no "crash avoidance" technology (e.g., emergency braking, lane change assist, lane-keep assist, intelligent cruise control, etc.) makes an iota of difference when your vehicle is T-boned, rear-ended, when you lose control on black ice and slam into an underpass, when an oncoming car loses control and crosses the center line to create an offset frontal impact, etc., etc.

This is simply a complete FRAUD perpetrated by the insurance companies that support this IIHS nonsense

Actually - These crash tests are exactly that - scientifically duplicatable under CONTROLLED conditions tests of vehicles with specific parameters that the manufacturers KNOW -and many have taken steps to allow their cars to do well in the specific tests done.(Ford added a brace for the side impact test)


The tests - which would likely NEVER happen in real life- have NEVER been shown to be representative of real world accidents- nor has it been shown that cars that do well on the tests do well in real life crashes.

THe tests include controlled speed - acceleration - and approach angles. So - if YOU regularly get into accidents that duplicate the exact parameters of these tests it is possible a car that did well on the tests might do well in real life- BUT - if you actually live in the real world - where accidents do not happen under completely controlled conditions - these tests are just a FRAUD - and are worthless.