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As written in NINES...
Posted by Stephen Goldberger (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:29:26
In Reply to: I'd Rather Be In S80 In Accident..., MRB, Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:17:38
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"Safest car in Sweden" is a project by Folksam, the Swedish equivalent of the HLDI in the USA. But unlike the HLDI, Folksam ***Investigates*** serious injury accidents, ***Correlates*** the injury severity to the accident severity, and ***Rates*** the vehicles according to your likelyhood of surviving with minimal injuries in a benchmark severe crash. The 9-5 was not only the safest car rated, it rated its own class - no other car offered its occupants a "40% or more" likelyhood of escaping serious injury or death. Just as the 9000 earned its own class in its day. Even the andedluvian C900 rates 20% better than average. Because the methodology requires a minimum of 100 serious injury crashes for evaluation, many of the high-zoot vehicles, like 7 series BMWs, Mercedes "S" class, and even the newer E-class and 5-Series are missing from the scorecard.
By comparison, in the USA, the HLDI normalizes injury *payments* to the number of vehicle registrations. The USA ratings are truly designed with the underwriters in mind, because the USA statistics *do* take into account the demographics of the owner body, with otherwise identical vehicles (like Buicks, Pontiacs, and Oldsmobiles) sometimes having vastly different ratings.
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- safety, bostonsabber, Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:41:40
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