This is a pretty tenuous hypothetical and implies that the NHTSA would have acted if only it could. The poor agency is being beat up by the big bad corporation that should go have a time out.
So we cannot say that a “5 star” vehicle is safer than a “1 star” vehicle? How about saying that a “5 star” is better than a “4 star” vehicle? Let’s not bend over backwards to persecute a car company for shouting from the rooftops that they got the highest score on the safety test by the car safety testing organization.
I personally don’t find it unreasonable to call the lowest (highest) scoring vehicle safest.
