IIHS announced 21 SUV headlamps test results of 60% was poor"

Recently, the U.S. Highway Safety Association (IIHS) announced a 21 for small SUV headlamps lighting test results, surprisingly, none of the 21 models models "and" evaluation, only 4 models had achieved evaluation of "acceptable", which was named "poor" models totaled 12, accounting for about 60%. In addition, it is worth noting that, in all the tested models, the worst headlamps lighting performance for Honda HR-V (that is, the U.S. market Honda Chi).

Specifically these 21 tested models, according to a list of data provided by IIHS, 4 was named "acceptble" that is "acceptable" for the SUV 2017 version of Ford maverick, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Mazda CX-3; 5 was named "marginal" that is "just passing" models for the BMW X1 Mazda, CX-5, MITSUBISHI outlander, TOYOTA RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan; while the 12 was named "poor" or "poor" models for the Audi Q3, Buick ang Cora, Chevrolet created a cool, Fiat 500X, Honda HR-V, JEEP free man, JEEP free guest, JEEP Wrangler, KIA version 2017 Sportage, MITSUBISHI ASX Jin Hyun, Nissan X-Trail, Subaru forester.

IIHS engineers will be placed in the car into the five models of different situations, respectively, straight driving, left sharp turn, right turn, normal left turn and right turn. In these five situations, the engineers use the night professional measuring instrument to measure the distance of the headlamps of the 21 models. At the same time, engineers also measured the headlight beam for the opposite to the car driver "interference", if the measured vehicle headlamps lighting for other drivers because of too strong, so the final result "blinding" the car is not higher than the pass line". In addition, the only test can be added to the front headlight high beam assistive technology, that is, according to the actual driving conditions of the vehicle automatically adjust the use of far and near light, which can greatly reduce the use of high beam.

According to the above test conditions in 21 tested models is the best performance of a new model: Mazda CX-3, the test for the top with Grand Touring models. This model is equipped with a curved adaptive LED lamp and high beam assist system. In addition, whether it is in the normal turn right, go straight, sharp left turn when the CX-3 has a very good performance. However, CX-3 is not perfect, when the normal left turn, CX-3 provides insufficient lighting brightness.

The remaining three reached an "acceptable" evaluation of the SUV models of the Ford maverick, Honda CR-V and Hyundai tucson. But these three models are not equipped with headlight corner adaptive control system, and only Ford Maverick is equipped with beam assisted technology.

It is worth noting that the 2016 Honda HR-V (that is, the U.S. market Honda Chi) unfortunately became the worst performance of the test model. Because in the night test of the five scenarios, the Honda HR-V far and near light does not provide adequate lighting.

IIHS to remind consumers, in the test are selected the best performance of the car models, consumers need to confirm whether they buy the corresponding models. For example, only modern Tucson with models obtained the evaluation of "acceptable", front lighting test remaining low allocation models is not qualified. But even if it is equipped with headlights with Tucson curve adaptive system still poor performance, this is because the models of other drivers caused serious "blinding".

Of all the tested models, the 17 models created a more serious "glare", including almost all headlamps, halogen, xenon, and LED. As a result, IIHS concluded that whether or not a serious "glare" had nothing to do with the headlights. There are 3 models in the model of the car is completely due to the serious glare caused by the "drop" pass line, "17".

"Car manufacturers and not on the" lighting "the car equipped with corresponding degree of attention," IIHS Senior Research Engineer at Matthew Brumbelow said, "but we are optimistic that a reminder to the automakers in the immediately after will have corresponding adjustment measures. "

IIHS said that for the moment, the performance of different vehicles headlamps, the government is only based on the theory of the standard test, therefore, the actual driving situation in the vehicle may be different from the theoretical value. Data show that almost half of the traffic deaths are caused by poor light conditions, so the test results should be taken seriously.

It is understood that the United States Highway Safety Association (IIHS) is called "the collision testing agencies of the world's most stringent, not only in 2012 created a positive 25% small area overlap crash test", has made many models to test the "nightmare", almost every year, IIHS will be based on the actual situation, add new test items. According to IIHS said that in the 2017 selection of the highest award - "TOPSAFETYPICK+", headlamps lighting performance will serve as an important prerequisite.

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