The Model Y is the company's fifth star rating in Europe. During safety tests conducted by the European New Car Assessment Programme, the electric SUV received the highest overall score among all the vehicles tested.
The testing measures the vehicle's ability to protect adults, its ability to protect children, and its safety assistance features. The Model Y scored a 97 percent in Adult Occupant Protection and a 98 percent in Safety Assist, with full points for lane support and a cabin camera-based driver monitoring system.
The agency said that the camera-only vision system performed well in preventing crashes with other cars, cyclists, and pedestrians.
The secretary general of Euro NCAP said that he hopes thatTesla will aspire to that goal in the future.
The underlying architecture of the car makes it more rigid and better suited to protect passengers. The Model Y and otherTesla vehicles have a lower center of gravity because the battery is in the floor of the car. The Model S, Model X, and Model 3 are all five-star rated by Euro NCAP.
The company's team is dedicated to improving driving safety. It doesn't give us pause to achieve some of the highest safety scores ever awarded, it motivates us to make some of the world's safest vehicles even safer
The same thing is happening in the US. The Model Y is the most recent vehicle to receive a five-star rating from the NHTSA. NHTSA grades cars on a variety of crash test metrics, including frontal crashes with subcategories for both the driver and passenger seats, side crashes, and rollover scenarios, but not pedestrian and cyclist safety and not driver-assisted technology.
Notably, neither Euro NCAP nor NHTSA includes Tesla’s two driver-assist systems
The testing protocols of Euro NCAP and NHTSA do not include the autopilot and full self- driving systems ofTesla. The automatic emergency braking system and lane keep assist prevent drivers from unintentionally drifting into another lane.
Nearly three dozen incidents in the US are being investigated by the NHTSA. The agency upgraded its probe into a dozen crashes involving stationary emergency vehicles earlier this year. The European Union has a higher bar to clear than the US when it comes to regulatory approvals.
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