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Just 2 GM Vehicles Earn Top Safety Score - Guess Which 2


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John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
12-8-2016

Today every automaker is pumping out press releases trumpeting their pride over the great safety scores they earned. IIHS updates its list periodically, and today announced which models are 2017 Top Safety Pick Plus models based on its extensive testing. The new scoring includes both forward collision prevention, something GM has committed to providing standard on every vehicle by 2022, and a score of Acceptable or Good on headlights. Toyota is the top automaker with nine models that earn the TSP+ rating. Honda has five. GM just 2.

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At Toyota and Honda, most of the models that earned the top scores are top-selling models in their segment. For example, the Corolla, RAV4, and Accord. However, at GM the only two models that earn the top safety scores are the low-selling Chevy Volt and the low-volume (so far) Chinese-built and imported Buick Envision.

 

The second tier of safety is called Top Safety pick, and vehicles in this group don't have to have good headlights to earn the designation. Here, in this larger group, GM has just three models, the Cadillac XT5 crossover, the Chevy Malibu, and the GMC Acadia.

 

Only one pickup truck in America is a Top Safety Pick Plus or Top Safety Pick. Can you guess which one it is?

 

For the complete IIHS listing please see the group's site.

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The rating system is a joke now. They require top scorers to have that stupid collision prevention junk that has proven to be less than reliable. I've read several cases where the panic stopping thing gets all dopey in heavy snow or rain and randomly makes the car go into a full panic stop. That'll get you killed. Crash performance is obviously something to consider, but this prevention junk is half baked.

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The rating system is a joke now. They require top scorers to have that stupid collision prevention junk that has proven to be less than reliable. I've read several cases where the panic stopping thing gets all dopey in heavy snow or rain and randomly makes the car go into a full panic stop. That'll get you killed. Crash performance is obviously something to consider, but this prevention junk is half baked.

 

 

For sure, I really wish we would just overhaul the learning system instead of adding all of this electronic safety garbage to vehicles.

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For sure, I really wish we would just overhaul the learning system instead of adding all of this electronic safety garbage to vehicles.

 

I agree.

What worries me is when all of this techno stuff gets old. What are costs to repair/replace?

 

I won't live long enough for complete driverless cars but you youngsters here will. Good Luck !

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The rating system is a joke now. They require top scorers to have that stupid collision prevention junk that has proven to be less than reliable. I've read several cases where the panic stopping thing gets all dopey in heavy snow or rain and randomly makes the car go into a full panic stop. That'll get you killed. Crash performance is obviously something to consider, but this prevention junk is half baked.

 

One of the loaners I had when my truck was being repaired had that forward collision crap. IT was almost the cause of me crashing, scared me into thinking something was wrong and almost made me crash. Stupid system. I think it was on that little Tahoe they gave me, can't remember if that sardine can of a buick had it or not.

 

 

 

Even worse is what happens when people become dependent on these systems and then those systems fail...

 

I hope I'm gone before they outlaw actual driving. I don't care how cool or whatever it is, I want to drive, I like driving.

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I agree.

What worries me is when all of this techno stuff gets old. What are costs to repair/replace?

 

I won't live long enough for complete driverless cars but you youngsters here will. Good Luck !

it will narrow down to the guts of what is needed.

weird things have been out there since the 90s.

 

anything radio or safety, swap/disable.

 

engine controls..

the cylinder deactivation , and limiters..

all goes to the past.

 

else.

we bankrupt it again. :)

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