Crash Tests Will Get Even Tougher in 2025 IIHS Says.
- 2 months ago
There Are Also Major Changes in IIHS Award Criteria in 2024.
Each year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety makes it harder to earn the organization's Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards. The group is currently outlining changes to the 2024 benchmarks and has confirmed changes it plans to make to the 2025 tests.
There are significant changes to the IIHS award criteria for this year. For 2024, a good rating from the IIHS is now required for the heavier barrier side crash test for the TSP or TSP+ award. Previously, the group had separate day and night pedestrian frontal collision avoidance assessments. Now it combines them into a single test run in both conditions, so a vehicle can't excel and receive awards for just one hour of the day. An acceptable or good rating is required to be eligible for both awards.
During last year's front overlap testing, the IIHS began placing a dummy behind the driver. To receive the Top Safety Pick+ award in 2024, a vehicle must receive an acceptable or good rating. The agency is also reviewing how it scores the small overlap frontal crash test. Driver and passenger side reviews are now in a single category, with the rating being the lower of the two results. All trim levels of a vehicle must receive good or acceptable scores for the model to qualify for both awards.
"We will raise the bar again with more stringent criteria for the 2025 Top Safety Picks, but the updates will be more modest," IIHS spokesman Joe Young said in a statement. "The changes will relate to the updated moderate overlap crash test. A good or acceptable rating in that test will be "It is one of the requirements for the 2024 Top Safety Pick+ award. In 2025, the 'plus' award will require a good rating, while the regular Top will require a good rating. Safety Pick will require an acceptable rating," he said.
The IIHS award criteria base award criteria on the calendar year of the vehicle, not the model year. This means that even if the 2025 models start arriving in showrooms later this year, the organization will continue to use the 2024 rules to test them.
So far there are 22 Top Safety Pick+ winners and 49 vehicles with a 2024 Top Safety Pick. For comparison, when the IIHS announced its 2023 criteria there were 28 TSP+ vehicles and 20 TSP models.
Source: https://www.motor1.com/news/710321/iihs-crash-test-criteria-changes-for-2025/
Each year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety makes it harder to earn the organization's Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards. The group is currently outlining changes to the 2024 benchmarks and has confirmed changes it plans to make to the 2025 tests.
There are significant changes to the IIHS award criteria for this year. For 2024, a good rating from the IIHS is now required for the heavier barrier side crash test for the TSP or TSP+ award. Previously, the group had separate day and night pedestrian frontal collision avoidance assessments. Now it combines them into a single test run in both conditions, so a vehicle can't excel and receive awards for just one hour of the day. An acceptable or good rating is required to be eligible for both awards.
During last year's front overlap testing, the IIHS began placing a dummy behind the driver. To receive the Top Safety Pick+ award in 2024, a vehicle must receive an acceptable or good rating. The agency is also reviewing how it scores the small overlap frontal crash test. Driver and passenger side reviews are now in a single category, with the rating being the lower of the two results. All trim levels of a vehicle must receive good or acceptable scores for the model to qualify for both awards.
"We will raise the bar again with more stringent criteria for the 2025 Top Safety Picks, but the updates will be more modest," IIHS spokesman Joe Young said in a statement. "The changes will relate to the updated moderate overlap crash test. A good or acceptable rating in that test will be "It is one of the requirements for the 2024 Top Safety Pick+ award. In 2025, the 'plus' award will require a good rating, while the regular Top will require a good rating. Safety Pick will require an acceptable rating," he said.
The IIHS award criteria base award criteria on the calendar year of the vehicle, not the model year. This means that even if the 2025 models start arriving in showrooms later this year, the organization will continue to use the 2024 rules to test them.
So far there are 22 Top Safety Pick+ winners and 49 vehicles with a 2024 Top Safety Pick. For comparison, when the IIHS announced its 2023 criteria there were 28 TSP+ vehicles and 20 TSP models.
Source: https://www.motor1.com/news/710321/iihs-crash-test-criteria-changes-for-2025/