Road safety is a very important aspect of modern life. I want to be safe not only as a driver, but also for pedestrians, but we'll talk about them another time. In the event of unusual situations on the road, especially emergency or extreme, an excellent role is played by the vehicle security system, which significantly mitigates the consequences of any collision. To determine how safe a car is, today there are several safe car ratings that are being watched by many motorists from around the world.

Each rating can only conditionally assess the safety of a particular car, because in the car there are a huge number of factors that affect the safety of the car. Despite all these difficulties, we now find out which car is the safest in the world.

Today there are quite well-known world rankings that objectively assess the safety level of each tested car.

IIHS car safety rating

The IIHS rating is considered quite serious and authoritative in the automotive world. Ratings of the American community IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) publish fairly transparent ratings of cars, from which you can clearly see which car is safer, and which less, there is a clear rating system.

In general, it is believed that the most authoritative safety ratings of cars are made in the United States, and this is not accidental, because in the United States, starting in the 70s, people began to pay special attention to the safety of cars, and to evaluate a car on a safety scale, they carried out an objective this day, crash tests, which clearly show what is happening with the car in a collision. Thanks to crash tests, you can easily determine which the safest car in the world.

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IIHS conducts crash tests with many models and brands of cars, and then groups the research results into the safest car ratings in the world. There are various headings: annual, for the whole history and other ratings.

IIHS is an insurance organization, this is what its name says (Insurance), so they also have ratings based on claims from owners of some cars and insurance companies. Information based on insurance claims is of interest to US residents, and safety indicators based on crash tests are of interest to the whole world.

Usually, the safety test program conducted by the IIHS includes frontal collisions, side impacts, shocks in the trunk, and others. In addition, the test results show what place the car is considered the safest. Relatively recently, at the end of 2012, the IIHS Top Safety Pick crash test was conducted, in which the safest car in the world. The entire rating includes 115 car models, but we will look at the leaders:

• the safest cars among subcompact cars are Fiat 500; Ford Fiesta; Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris;
• Chevrolet Sonic, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Volt and Ford Focus are the safest among compact cars;
• among mid-size cars - Chevrolet Malibu, Audi A3, Buick Verano, Chrysler 200;
• among the mid-size luxury cars, safety was taken by Audi A4, Acura TL, Acura TSX;
• Buick LaCrosse, Chrysler 300, Buick Regal, Dodge Charger are recognized as the safest full-size family cars;
• BMW 5 Series, Audi A6, Cadillac CTS, Hyundai Equus sedan recognized as the safest full-size luxury cars;
• among mid-size SUVs, Dodge Journey, Chevrolet Equinox, Dodge Durango, Ford Edge are recognized as the safest;
• the safest mid-size SUVs of the luxury class are Audi Q5, Acura MDX, Cadillac SRX, BMW X3;
• The safest full-size SUVs are: Chevrolet Traverse, Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia;
• самые безопасные минивэны – Dodge Grand Caravan, Chrysler Town & Country, Honda Odyssey;
• The safest full-size pickups are Honda Ridgeline, Ford F-150, Toyota Tundra.

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If we analyze the claims from car owners, then the safest revealed Porsche 911, Chevrolet Corvette, and the most insecure - Toyota Yaris and Suzuki SX4.

NHTSA safety rating

Another authoritative organization, NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), it often provides the public with joint research with the IIHS.

NHTSA evaluates cars by crash test results, but in most cases, this organization tests cars that are not very popular in the United States and Canada. As a rule, the NHTSA ratings in their first places contain the same models as they took the first places in the ratings from IIHS.

Rating safe cars EuroNCAP

European researchers are also not far behind the Americans in terms of assessing car safety. The EuroNCAP (European New Car Assessment Program) is dominant in Europe and was founded in 1997. Ratings are also based on crash test data, but other factors are also analyzed.

The European rating takes into account not only clear measurements, but also human experience. The safest in the European rankings recognized:

• in the middle of a compact car - Chevrolet Aveo;
• Golf class - Ford Focus;
• mid-SUV - Audi Q3;
• among cars for the whole family - Volvo V60;
• among kompaktvenov - Mercedes B-class.

Other car safety ratings

Now we will consider less serious ratings, since they are based a little on other data, that is, these ratings are a bit subjective. For example, the rating of safe cars from Forbs, this rating is quite frivolous, but it interests a lot of people. So, according to Forbes magazine, the safest car in the world adopted by the Audi A6, followed by the BMW 5 Series, Infiniti EX 35, Mercedes E Class and Volvo S60.

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These cars are quite expensive, so it is not surprising that they have a very high level of safety. But in the case of Forbes, studying safety in cars is all about advertising and marketing to show potential buyers which cars are best to buy. By the way, there is an interesting machine, Humanix iSAVE-SC1, it has many of its individual features, and external airbags are considered the most important chip.

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