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"  The Toyota Camry, as much as any car on the market today, lives on its reputation for boring reliability (hey, I totaled one at age 18 and lived to tell). That sterling name took a public relations dent today, though, when Consumer Reports dropped the Camry from its influential recommended list. The vanilla sedan wasn&amp;#039;t alone: The Toyota Prius V and RAV4, as well as the Audi A4, are no longer recommended. The reason: the small-overlap frontal crash test. Last summer, PopMech took a close look at this new way to measure collision safety, and we expected its ascent to change the way your next car is built. Rather than staging a direct head-on or side-impact collision, the test tries to simulate a more realistic occurrence\u2014what happens when a driver swerves to miss an obstacle but can&amp;#039;t avoid it completely, and strikes the object with the corner of the car. You can read all about the test and see video examples in our full piece. It&amp;#039;s not an easy test to build for. As we said then, the small-overlap frontal crash test &amp;quot;focuses all the energy in a part of the car where there is typically no frame structure to absorb the blow, making it a tougher safety challenge for new cars.&amp;quot; For 2014 and beyond, automakers will be increasingly conscious of this new test. They&amp;#039;ll probably begin to reinforce the front corners of new cars and redesign or reposition airbags to protect occupants from this kind of impact.  In the meantime, though, automakers haven&amp;#039;t had much time to meet that challenge. Scores have been all over the map, and even autos with a good safety reputation, like the Camry have earned bad marks. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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