Safety is one of, if not the most important thing to consider when purchasing a car. This makes a lot of sense since many people spend a lot of time in their vehicles and just one accident is enough to take everything we hold close away from us. Luckily, modern technology has helped make our modern vehicles safer and different vehicle manufacturers are always trying to outdo each other when it comes to installing new safety features on their cars. The better they are, the higher they rank on safety scores. The following are the vehicle manufacturers that make the safest vehicles:


1. Lexus 

Lexus is Toyota's luxury vehicle brand. Its lineup includes multiple vehicles, from small luxury sedans to large SUVs, sports cars, and hypercars. Several Lexus models already have a perfect score of 10 out of 10 in the U.S News safety ratings. 

Lexus boasts of multiple clever safety features, including a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, forward-collision warnings with automatic braking, blindspot monitoring, adaptive cruise control, parking sensors, lane keep assist, driver drowsiness monitor, and many others. 


2. Mazda 

Mazda's lineup of SUVs and cars has earned a reputation for safety across the US. Every current model has a U.S News safety score of 10 or 9.7. Most models come equipped with a rearview mirror, Smart City Brake Support, blind-spot monitoring, traffic sign recognition, active lane-keeping assist, lane departure warning, full-speed automatic emergency braking, and adaptive cruise control. 


3. BMW

BMW is known and loved for its vast collection of luxury vehicles, from high-performance SUVs to quintessential sedans, plug-in hybrids, and luxury supercars. All current BMW models scored a near-perfect U.S News safety score with the lowest being the X5 at 9.4.

BMWs come with almost every active safety feature that has been invented, including all we've mentioned in the models above and other notable extras such as parallel parking assist, night vision, side collision prevention, and speed limit detection. 


4. Mercedes-Benz 

Just like BMW, Mercedes-Benz vehicles are known for having advanced safety systems and have always been one of the pioneers of most safety features we see in vehicles today. 

Unlike many other manufacturers, Mercedes-Benz provides many of its valuable safety features as standard features in most of its vehicles. This includes features like crosswind assist, forward collision warning with braking assist, driver drowsiness monitoring, blindspot monitoring, and many others. One of the notable safety features unique to Mercedes-Benz vehicles is the Mercedes Pre-Safe that's designed to prepare the vehicle for a potential collision by tightening the seat belts and closing the windows. 


5. Tesla 

For the past few years, Tesla has been making waves in the auto industry and causing a major shift. Its vehicles are fully electric which has made the company the pioneer of most of the technologies involved in running a fully electric vehicle properly. 

All Teslas come standard with safety features like lane departure warning, forward collision warning with automatic brakes, adaptive cruise control, blindspot monitoring, and unique features like the Autopilot feature that allows the car to drive itself.