Vehicle Safety Ratings Will Soon Focus on Pedestrian Safety, Too

… For the first time ever, and amid a massive rise in traffic-related deaths of pedestrians, the NCAP and NHTSA are going to look again at how they rate vehicle safety. And this time, they’re not just going to think about people inside the cars and how they will fare in an accident — they’ll also look at how safe the cars are for the pedestrians around them who share the roads.