Hyundai’s new crossover Venue was named Top Safety Pick through the Road Safety Insurance Institute this week, but only when supplied with fast headlights. In fact, this headlight precaution is what prevented the Venue from winning the coveted Top Safety Pick Plus award, according to IIHS.
To be named the most productive protection option, a vehicle will need to download a “good” score on six crash tests, “advanced” or “superior” scores for the prevention of vehicles front to vehicles and vehicles to pedestrians. collisions and a “appropriate” or “good” headlight score. The Venue gently surpassed the first two, and although its optional LED headlights scored well, the fundamental halogen headlights only deserved a “marginal” score.
“The base headlights, halogen projectors, have a marginal score due to insufficient illumination in the curves,” IIHS said Thursday.
The additional problem here is that the IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus award is given to cars with smart or appropriate headlight ratings in all areas, plus other impressive protection variety criteria. If Hyundai supplied the Led Coming of LED headlights with appliances, which is a kind of curious cost-cutting omission, to be fair, it would be the winner of the Top Safety Pick Plus.
However, when credits are due, the Hyundai Venue gets stellar crash-checking ratings, which contradicts the misconception that smaller cars are not as safe as larger ones. We are enthusiasts of the small place here at Roadshow, but we are also strongly on the right headlights. In the hope that they will soon have LEDs as standard.
This was originally published on Roadshow.
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