Improvements in headlights have made nighttime driving safer and reduced dangerous crashes.
, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry that developed the ratings program that linked good headlight ratings to lower crash rates.
“Driving at night is three times as risky as driving during the day,” Matthew Brumbelow, the Insurance Institute’s senior research engineer who conducted the study, said in a statement. “This is the first study to document how much headlights that provide better illumination can help.” The study examined how headlights with good, acceptable, marginal and poor Insurance Institute ratings affected crash rates and showed how improved vehicle headlights made a noticeable impact in preventing nighttime crashes.
The institute said prior to establishing its headlight ratings program, it was difficult to determine how well different headlights lit up the road ahead, “but the outdated federal headlight standard, which has been in place since 1968, effectively branded them all equal.” Since 2016, the institute has evaluated and rated some 1,000 different headlight systems.
The new analysis, based on police-reported crashes involving 187 vehicle models and about 44,000 single-vehicle crashes that happened in darkness, was controlled for a number of factors, including glare and differing road conditions.
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