5 star safety rating only matters inasmuch as it impacts insurance costs. And pedestrian risk should already be priced into insurance costs, independent of whet

5 star safety rating only matters inasmuch as it impacts insurance costs. And pedestrian risk should already be priced into insurance costs, independent of whether it’s in the safety rating tests. If they change the standards and a truck doesn’t get a five star rating, the manufacturer will just not mention the safety rating in their marketing materials, and astroturf online forums with opinions undermining the value of the safety rating (‘they changed it specifically to mark down trucks’; ‘it doesn’t test the safety conditions that really matter anyway’; etc… heck you already see people raise these talking points about NCAP) so customers can rationalize themselves into ignoring that the truck they want to buy only scored 3.5 stars.