{"id":8485,"date":"2019-04-01T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8485"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:15:20","slug":"iihs-says-most-pickups-need-better-passenger-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/iihs-says-most-pickups-need-better-passenger-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"IIHS says most pickups need better passenger protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of pickups recently put through the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihs.org\/iihs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IIHS<\/a>) passenger-side small overlap front test struggled to maintain their structure, but two trucks \u2014 the Ford F-150 and the Nissan Titan \u2014 earned a good rating.<\/p>\n<p>The F-150 and the Titan join the Ram 1500, whose good rating in the test was released late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Honda Ridgeline, which earned an acceptable rating in the passenger-side test, is the only pickup so far to qualify for the 2019 Top Safety Pick award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commend Ford, Nissan and Ram for providing state-of-the-art crash protection for both drivers and front passengers of their large pickup models,\u201d said David Zuby, IIHS chief research officer. \u201cAs a group, however, the pickup class still has a lot of work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota Tacoma earned an acceptable rating in the passenger-side test, but fell short of an award because of headlights. The Toyota Tundra, a large pickup, earned the only poor rating, while five of the trucks rated marginal.<\/p>\n<p>In total, IIHS has rated 11 crew cab pickups in the passenger-side test \u2014 four small and seven large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of pickups recently put through the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety\u2019s (IIHS) passenger-side small overlap front test struggled to maintain their structure, but two trucks \u2014 the Ford F-150 and the Nissan Titan \u2014 earned a good rating. The F-150 and the Titan join the Ram 1500, whose good rating in the test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving-for-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}