--- title: Safety and reliability — Smart car buying assistant description: This section collects everything the site publishes on how safe and how dependable a car actually is. Articles explain how crash test ratings are produced, where NHTSA and IIHS methods differ, and why a five-star score does not always translate into real-world protection. Alongside safety, the section covers reliability rankings, dependability data, breakdown statistics and the running costs that follow from them. Buyer-facing guides compare family cars, SUVs, used models and affordable options for new and teenage drivers, and look at how marketing claims are built on top of test scores. Common safety myths are examined against the underlying test data. canonical: "https://futurecar.ai/t/safety-and-reliability" author: futurecar.ai editorial team source: "https://futurecar.ai" topic: Safety and reliability --- # Safety and reliability This section collects everything the site publishes on how safe and how dependable a car actually is. Articles explain how crash test ratings are produced, where NHTSA and IIHS methods differ, and why a five-star score does not always translate into real-world protection. Alongside safety, the section covers reliability rankings, dependability data, breakdown statistics and the running costs that follow from them. Buyer-facing guides compare family cars, SUVs, used models and affordable options for new and teenage drivers, and look at how marketing claims are built on top of test scores. 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