NCAP test is conducted at 56 km/h (35 mi/h), rather than 48 km/h (30 mi/h) as required by FMVSS No. 208. Model year (MY) 1979 vehicles were the first tested and rated using this protocol. For several years, the agency provided consumers with the values recorded during frontal impact tests by the anthropomorphic test devices and the relationship of those values to established injury assessment references. After the Senate and Conference Appropriations Reports for Fiscal Year 1992 requested that NHTSA improve its methods of informing consumers about NCAP results, the agency established the five-star rating system, which.
