Indeed. It is scary how badly cars were performing in their small overlap tests.<p>Just for clarity, they did &quot;frontal offset impact&quot; tests a long time ago, small overlap however was a recent addition, you can see the difference between the two here[0].<p>So even in the early 2000s vehicles did improve for frontal offset impacts, they just improved further in the last couple of years with the small overlap tests.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;ratings-info&#x2F;frontal-crash-tests" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;ratings-info&#x2F;frontal-crash-...</a>