The 2021 Ram 1500 Crew Cab has earned a 2021 High Security Choose ranking from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security (IIHS).

The ranking applies to Ram 1500 Crew Cab fashions outfitted with the Superior Security Group. Ram 1500 was the primary pickup to attain the High Security Choose ranking and marks back-to-back (2020 and 2021) High Security Choose standing from IIHS. 

“A High Security Choose for the Ram 1500 solidifies our long-standing dedication to our prospects by means of superior expertise and engineering experience,” stated Mike Koval Jr., Ram Model Chief Govt Officer – Stellantis. “This validation from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security builds shopper confidence in our vehicles and the Ram model.”

Pedestrian Computerized Emergency Braking is the newest IIHS requirement wanted to earn High Security Choose standing. Ram‘s expertise, which achieved an “superior” ranking, builds on the truck’s sensor-fusion Computerized Emergency Braking system.

Sensor-fusion combines digital camera expertise with radar sensors to assist decide if a frontal affect with one other car seems imminent. If, after a number of alerts, the motive force doesn’t reply to the chance, the system deploys the car’s brakes to assist keep away from affect or cut back its severity.

To accommodate Pedestrian Computerized Emergency Braking, the vary of the system’s radar expertise is expanded to assist establish pedestrians. If a collision seems imminent, the system responds in a way much like Computerized Emergency Braking to cut back or get rid of threat of affect, relying on circumstances reminiscent of velocity and proximity.

Pedestrian Computerized Emergency Braking is a part of the Ram 1500’s accessible Superior Security Group bundle, which incorporates Lane Departure Warning-Plus, Rear Cross Path detection, Blind-spot Monitoring with trailer protection and Adaptive Cruise Management with Cease, Go and Maintain.

Computerized Emergency Braking earned the best attainable ranking – “superior” – in IIHS testing of the vehicle-to-vehicle state of affairs. It’s normal gear on Laramie, Insurgent, Longhorn, Restricted Longhorn and Restricted trims. The function can also be accessible on Tradesman and Bighorn trims with the Stage 1 Tools Group bundle.

Central to the truck’s analysis was its efficiency in six IIHS crashworthiness exams that included three sorts of frontal crashes. The remaining exams inflict injury in step with a aspect affect, rear affect and a rollover.

The Ram 1500 Crew Cab earned the best attainable rating in every.