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Tesla Model scores well in crash safety tests, but falls short of the higher standard.
Tesla, the electric car manufacturer with the cult following, missed receiving better security rating in its first estimates of the test by the ever Accident Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Tesla fell a little short of the top bar of security selection, but they still represent a fairly high level of security, said David Zuby, IIHS executive vice president and head of security.
Tesla said it has already started updating production models of the S model in order to get a better grade security.
For a new car manufacturer like Tesla, building a positive reputation can make all the difference Tesla was one of four energy-efficient vehicles tested in this test series A second electric vehicle, BMW i3, also fell just short of the highest quality, while two plug-in hybrids, the Toyota Prius and the Chevrolet Volt Prime, were both awarded the IIHS Top Safety pick.
The IIHS is a nonprofit organization funded by auto insurers and insurance associations is one of the two groups in the US performing crash tests on vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the other .
The IIHS gave the S flagship model a poor rating Mark Schiefelbein Associated Press.
The IIHS rates vehicles, it also performs tests good, accceptable, marginal or poor To earn IIHS Top Safety Pick label a vehicle must earn good ratings in all five crash tests and segregated safety.
In the case of Tesla Model S is not the mark of the superior in three small overlap crash test areas; preventing accidents before; and quality of headlights.
In the small overlap crash test, the IIHS said seat belt allowed the torso of the crash test dummy to go too far forward.
The structure of the S model has held well enough †but his header went into the airbag and then hit the steering wheel through the airbag, said Zuby.
We recorded the forces on the dummy's head indicating that a real person could have been hurt if this happens in a real accident and so we downgraded performance of the Tesla good to acceptable.
Zuby said the injuries were not life threatening of a human driver.
The IIHS also gave the S flagship model a poor rating, although the agency has recently hardened its flagship develop standards which only 38 models received the highest security rating in 2016, compared to 78 the previous year L IIHS tests usually about 200 vehicles per year.
With Tesla with the headlights, I was surprised that they rank so bad, said the auto journalist Petrina Gentile.
I mean, it's a faulty quality Headlights are so crucial to security, especially night visibility Half of traffic deaths occur in darkness or at dawn and dusk.
So I'm not really surprised that aren t headlights a little better, especially when you look at the S model is packed with technology so their Autopilot technology is amazing, it is as close to an autonomous car you can get.
In a statement emailed to CBC News, a spokesperson Tesla said we are committed to making the safest cars in the world, and the S model has already received five stars safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Administration Safety and a five-star rating from Euro NCAP Model S still has the lowest probability of injury never any car ever tested by the NHTSA.
We develop proactive updates and implement aggressively changes on the production line in record time any time there is a significant advantage for customer safety One recent improvements in January 2017 door expressly acceptable or second highest score as the S model reaches the small overlap frontal crash test, and we expect further tests to give the best possible score a good grade in the class crashworthiness.
The IIHS said the current version of the S model was not rated t for preventing accidents before, because while the automatic braking system comes standard, Tesla t activated hasn software for all vehicles.
Tesla s said that in the coming weeks, the automatic emergency braking will be deployed via an update to the free over-the-air software and IIHS will test a new vehicle.
We expect to receive the best possible rating in all categories, which makes it eligible S model IIHS Top Safety Pick award, the spokesman.
Safety ratings given by both IIHS and NHTSA are followed closely by automakers.
IIHS Safety Pick prominently in the marketing materials, and automobile manufacturers often make improvements to vehicle safety based on poor results.
They're big, they're very important for a manufacturer to have behind them, he sold a lot of cars, said Gentile.
When you have consumers shopping for vehicles, if looking at two different vehicles and there is a vehicle that has better security rating selection, which could make the difference between buying the vehicle and do not buy it, she says.
Tesla has faced security issues in the past, including the death of a man 40 years old who used Autopilot Tesla S model when his collided with the side of a tractor trailer Investigation conducted by NHTSA found no defect trend related to security and cleared Tesla.
More recently, a Tesla owner won his Tesla Model X suddenly accelerated while parked in a garage, causing it to crash in the living room, injuring the driver and a passenger Tesla says its investigation showed the accident to exclusively caused by the driver pressing the accelerator pedal all the way to 100 percent.
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