Possible NHTSA 'Silver' Ratings Aim to Protect Older Drivers

By Kelsey Mays

March 5, 2015

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“The baby boom is the largest generation in the history of this country,” NHTSA Administrator David Strickland told Bloomberg in Washington. The agency says older occupants face a higher likelihood of injury in accidents.

Specifics are few, and there’s no timetable yet for implementation of the new rules. NHTSA’s last crash-test overhaul occurred in 2011; it implemented more-diverse crash test dummies and a new side-impact pole test. Strickland told Bloomberg the 2011 overhaul took three years to craft, which might give clues to how long any “silver” rating takes.