WASHINGTON - The government's crash-test program should take into account collision avoidance technologies and make the results more meaningful for new car buyers, safety officials said Wednesday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration held a daylong hearing with automakers, suppliers and safety advocates to discuss changes to the New Car Assessment Program, called NCAP, which grades new vehicles on a scale of up to five stars.
Traffic safety officials said the program, started in 1979, has helped speed the implementation of safety technologies into new cars. But they want to improve frontal, side-impact and rollover testing while measuring emerging …
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