>How much safer are they? A lot. Probably the biggest single change was the introduction of the small overlap crash test by the IIHS. It turns out that the sta

>How much safer are they? A lot. Probably the biggest single change was the introduction of the small overlap crash test by the IIHS. It turns out that the standard frontal crash tests are quite unrealistic; in most frontal accidents, the driver swerves to avoid something but clips the corner, rather than just slamming into something head-on. Cars designed to perform well in the standard frontal crash test often performed miserably in the small overlap test. Compare the same model before and after the small overlap test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Oq2SPu48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Oq2SPu48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE_EUa3VC48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE_EUa3VC48