Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Cybertruck Results

[dalton108]

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/tesla/cybertruck-crew-cab-pickup/2025

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[dalton108]

Makes the decision to not include matrix LED headlights in the design even more perplexing. Again, my M3P from 2021 had them and now has adaptive headlights through the 2025.14 update.

 

[CyberTexas]

 

[CyberTexas]

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/tesla/cybertruck-crew-cab-pickup/2025

 

[Coolhandz]

Interesting results. I was surprised the headlights got a poor rating. I looked through how they were scored and it doesn't really make sense to me. I guess brightness alone doesn't make them good as they seem to be very bright to me.

The other surprising thing was the seatbelt reminder only getting marginal. I think it nags just enough. Unlike the Subaru we used to have which was so obnoxiously loud. Plus, the truck points you to the exact seat reliably.

 

[SCTesla]

Interesting results. I was surprised the headlights got a poor rating. I looked through how they were scored and it doesn't really make sense to me. I guess brightness alone doesn't make them good as they seem to be very bright to me.

The other surprising thing was the seatbelt reminder only getting marginal. I think it nags just enough. Unlike the Subaru we used to have which was so obnoxiously loud. Plus, the truck points you to the exact seat reliably.

The 2024 CTs received a worse crash for overlap front crashes, but a redesign changed that.

NEWS: The Cybertruck has just received its official safety ratings from the IIHS. It received a "Good" crashworthiness rating.

"Beginning with 2025 models built after April 2025, changes were made to the front underbody structure to improve occupant safety in moderate overlap front crashes."

Front crash prevention (pedestrian) also received the top "Good" rating, while the headlights received a "Poor" rating.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/tesla/cybertruck-crew-cab-pickup/2025

 

[koolio]

The 2024 CTs received a worse crash for overlap front crashes, but a redesign changed that.

NEWS: The Cybertruck has just received its official safety ratings from the IIHS. It received a "Good" crashworthiness rating.

"Beginning with 2025 models built after April 2025, changes were made to the front underbody structure to improve occupant safety in moderate overlap front crashes."

Front crash prevention (pedestrian) also received the top "Good" rating, while the headlights received a "Poor" rating.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/tesla/cybertruck-crew-cab-pickup/2025

Interesting to hear there was a change to the front underbody structure....

 

[SCTesla]

I would like to see what the 2024 rating is/was.

 

[mongo]

Makes the decision to not include matrix LED headlights in the design even more perplexing. Again my M3P from 2021 had them and now has adaptive headlights through the 2025.14 update.

If it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit...

And Lars agrees:

 

[SCTesla]

If it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit...

That's a design decision

 

[dalton108]

If it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit...

By my count, 2020, when I took delivery of my ‘21 M3P (the first car in the US with matrix LEDs) was 4 years before CT launched. Your position is they couldn’t have figured it out in that time?

He initially thought it DID have them. None of it seems intentional. So, I stand by my remark.

 

[mongo]

That's a design decision

By my count 2020, when I took delivery of my ‘21 M3P (the first car in the US with matrix LEDs) was 4 years before CT launch. Your position is they couldn’t have figured it out in that time?

He initially thought it DID have them. None of it seems intentional. So, I stand by my remark.

The link was only to reference the packaging issue.

Model 3s are also sold in Europe where ADB has been approved since 2006. Even there, it was not enabled until early 2024.

NHTSA released the requirements for, and approval of, adaptive headlights in February of 2022. Model 3s sold in the US had it enabled in April of this year. So your car had underutilized hardware for 4-5 years.

Yes, Tesla could have package protected and either best guessed or held off on supplier kick off of the headlight assemblies until 2022, but styling was fairly well set in/ before 2019.

 

[dalton108]

The link was only to reference the packaging issue.

Model 3s are also sold in Europe where ADB has been approved since 2006. Even there, it was not enabled until early 2024.

NHTSA released the requirements for, and approval of, adaptive headlights in February of 2022. Model 3s sold in the US had it enabled in April of this year. So your car had underutilized hardware for 4-5 years.

Yes, Tesla could have package protected and either best guessed or held off on supplier kick off of the headlight assemblies until 2022, but styling was fairly well set in/ before 2019.

Yes I’m aware of all of that. And again they managed to do it for the Robotaxi which was designed after. And also the new Model Y.

To not further proof your “flagship” vehicle which had been hotly lusted after for five years by the time of launch remains stupefying to me; if you understand it— great. I cannot.

Again, why was everybody convinced that it had it in the first place including Wes? Because why wouldn’t it?! it’s not a materially different form factor than what’s in Juniper, they’ve been producing cars with them for five years, any arguments about lead time are completely obliterated by the existence of Juniper and Robotaxi.

I almost feel like this was inadvertent. If not it was costing and that is in my opinion unacceptable for the top of the line. Again, I have to keep going back to my MP3 at the time that car launched it was truly there halo car. S was already stale and the OG Roaster was an old dog.

They threw everything they had at the 2021 refresh of the performance model. It had everything new that they had to offer the day I took possession of it!

This was not true from either a hardware (matrix led/homelink) or software (summon/FSD) standpoint with the CT. I think that’s curious, in a bad way.

 

[Tallgeese179]

IMO the overall ratings in the places it didn't do well are kind of misleading:

1. Headlights primarily dinged for causing excessive glare. This is comical, considering the prevalence of: lifted trucks with aftermarket lights, shitboxes with blue tinted halogens, and people just straight up driving wiht high beams on.
2. Seat belt reminders not ringing long enough? Take some personal accountability for yourself and your passengers, maybe, IDK?
3. LATCH and anchor tiedowns too hard to find...I literally moved our baby seat from our X7 to the demo truck in 5-10 mins and didn't have to consult a manual to find the tiedowns. I would understand a bad rating if they failed/were missing/etc., but this is something you do like once a month (if that).

I care about the people inside being safe and avoiding hitting a car/person...seems to do well there

 

[GmP]

Interesting to hear there was a change to the front underbody structure....

This means that all FS CTs are less safe than the lower costs, lifetime super charging including, non-FS CTs sold since Q2 this year? Now it sucks even more to have not waited six months more. (Not really, really. Still happy with what it can do and does for my use cases. And if I would have waited six months, who knows if I still would have bought it? So no complaining. Only a little whining.)

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