Automobile Safety Rating System Is Failing Consumers

Excerpt:  “The 5-Star Safety Rating Program that Americans use when shopping for new passenger vehicles ‘fails consumers’ by not including collision-avoidance and other technology in the ratings and is approaching ‘near irrelevance,’ National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said. … The rating system, first introduced in 1979, gave automakers an incentive to continually improve the crashworthiness of vehicles. As a result, most passenger vehicles manufactured today receive top crashworthiness scores. But crash-avoidance technologies are not included in the rating system and are not on the window labels found on new cars at the dealership.”