The Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model Y earned 'good' ratings in the test that focuses on rear passenger safety, most rated 'moderate' or 'poor'
"All these vehicles provide excellent protection for the driver," said IIHS President David Harkey in a press release,"but only a handful extend that level of safety to the back seat."
The IIHS recently added a rear passenger dummy, positioned behind the existing driver seat dummy, to its moderate overlap front crash test after finding safety gains for front passengers had not matched the pace of rear safety. The test features a vehicle traveling at 40 mph toward a barrier with a deformable face made of aluminum honeycomb. Forty percent of the total width of the vehicle strikes the barrier on the driver side. IIHS says that the forces in the test are similar to those that would result from a frontal offset crash between two vehicles of the same weight, each going just under 40 mph.
The Ford Explorer was one of the few vehicles that did well in the new IIHS moderate overlap crash test.To earn a good rating, sensors in the rear dummy can't show excessive risk of injury to the head, neck, chest, abdomen or thigh. IIHS also uses video footage and greasepaint applied to the dummy's head to see if it hits the vehicles interior, or comes close to the front seatback. Additionally, it looks for passengers sliding under the seatbelt, which causes abdominal injuries.
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