2024 Rivian R1T Gets Updated Rating, Named IIHS Top Safety Pick+
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety updated its coveted Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ award criteria for 2024. The requirements include an updated front crash test that now measures how well vehicles protect rear-seat passengers in a crash, as well as occupants in the front. The new test has proven to be a challenge for many vehicles — including most mid-size pickups — but not the 2024 Rivian R1T, which has now earned Top Safety Pick+ honors. The all-electric pickup truck previously earned the agency’s TSP award.
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IIHS ranks crash-test performance on a four-point scale: poor, marginal, acceptable and good. In order to qualify for either award, vehicles must rate good in the small overlap front crash test — in which the vehicle strikes a barrier at 40 mph that covers 25% of its width — and a side-impact test. The vehicle’s standard headlights must rate at least acceptable for nighttime visibility, and it has to earn at least an acceptable rating in a vehicle-to-pedestrian front crash prevention test.
The difference between the awards for 2024 lies in the moderate overlap front crash test. Meant to simulate an offset head-on collision between two vehicles traveling just under 40 mph, the test sends a vehicle at 40 mph into a barrier that covers 40% of the vehicle’s width. Previously, this test was performed with a crash-test dummy in the driver’s seat only, but the updated test places a smaller dummy in the seat behind the driver, as well. Qualifying as a Top Safety Pick requires a good rating in the original test, without the dummy in the back seat; to earn TSPP status, a vehicle needs at least an acceptable result in the updated test.
Rivian’s Results
The 2024 Rivian R1T scored good ratings in all crash tests, and its standard headlights also ranked good. In the vehicle-to-pedestrian front crash prevention test, the R1T rated acceptable.
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