Your Headlights Suck: IIHS Limits Safety Awards Due To Poor Headlight Performance

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety continues to add requirements to qualify for the Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards, as the overall number of vehicle models awarded rises.

IIHS said vehicles must have "good" or "acceptable" headlights as standard equipment to qualify for the 2020 Top Safety Pick+ award. Headlights rated "good" or "acceptable" may be optional for the Top Safety Pick award, the institute said. Vehicles must also offer "advanced" or "superior" front-crash prevention technology to win either award.

jeffgall - 2/13/2020 5:12:17 PM

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It bugs me when DRLs are not the same shade of white as the headlight. Or worse, white led DRLs with halogen headlights. Shows a lack of attention to detail.

vdiv - 2/13/2020 5:40:01 PM

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Good! That means the lights are working ;)

MDarringer - 2/13/2020 10:11:00 PM

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I'm tired of the DRL styling bullshit.

Lights on cars are terrible and overdriving them is easy.

TomM - 2/14/2020 8:38:27 AM

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At one time this was not an issue - ALL headlights were the same - and cheap and easy to replace as well. Today - get a crack in the plastic and a headlight assembly can cost hundreds to thousands - all for the "better" light bulbs that apparently are not better after all.

Maybe the government should threaten to go back to a single type of approved headlight assembly - and that would get the manufacturers to fix the problems

jeffgall - 2/14/2020 10:42:09 AM

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There’s an answer. More government regulation. That always works.