Car Safety Risk Assessment Formula

Car companies have a formula to calculate exactly how dangerous a failure in your car could be.

It's a mandatory safety process where engineers brainstorm every possible malfunction, like your brakes

failing or steering locking up. They rate each potential disaster on three things.

First, Severity: how bad the injuries would be. Second,

Exposure: how often you're in that specific driving situation. And finally, Controllability:

can an average driver actually handle the failure and avoid a crash? These scores combine

to create a final risk level. That level dictates how over-engineered the safety systems

must be to prevent that specific nightmare from happening.