Cars To Have Additional Protection By 2013

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a directive stating that all passenger vehicles sold in the US by model year 2012 (typically in fall of the previous year) have new protection.

Head protection, sometimes called side curtain protection, is due to be phased in for 2010 model vehicles, just two years away. Full implantation throughout all new car models is due two years later.

Side protection is becoming more common in safety-conscious buyers, who until now have paid a premium for the protection in either higher vehicle prices or in a more expensive trim package that offers the additional protection.

Approximately half of 2008 model vehicles offer some sort of side protection. The federal agency said that hundreds of lives could be saved with full implementation.

Labels: autos, NHTSA, safety

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