In my day the test was straightforward. You had to drive between 2 cows without hitting either one. If you messed it up you didn't bother stopping, you just drove straight home.
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@Pale Rider that is not true. The reverse is the case. See my earlier post with links to NCAP. Its an urban myth, a falshood perpeuiated by people who don't like SUVs (Ive no problem at all with people not liking them, only that they stick to actual facts when trotting put their justifcation for doing so).
Current XC90, rather elderly now, on sale for almost 7 years and about to be replaced with a new model...
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/volvo/xc90/20976
The new Fiesta, arguably the most advanced and sophistcated small ICE car you can buy...
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/ford/fiesta/27708
While youre on the NCAP site have a root around, and youll see the Q7s, X5s, all the wildebeest comfortably outperform small cars for pedestrian safety.
Interestingly, in the last year or so NCAP have done away with a pedestrian rating for new models, and its now a "vulnerable road users" rating, presumably including tests for cyclists, horse riders, etc.