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Re:Elon Musk says Tesla’s autopilot is already “probably” be... by atwebb on Monday January 11, 2016 @02:27PM (#10882624)
IIHS also started the Small Overlap testing a few years ago which was pretty nasty and lots of existing cars didn't qualify. It was a major factor in us purchasing new instead of used and the particular cars we went with.
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Re:Elon Musk says Tesla’s autopilot is already “probably” be... by Someone1234 on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:20PM (#10883141)
Indeed. It is scary how badly cars were performing in their small overlap tests.

Just for clarity, they did "frontal offset impact" tests a long time ago, small overlap however was a recent addition, you can see the difference between the two here[0].

So even in the early 2000s vehicles did improve for frontal offset impacts, they just improved further in the last couple of years with the small overlap tests.

[0] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/ratings-info/frontal-crash-...

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