What is safety rating? Safety rating is a tool for the assessment and improvement in aspects of vehicle safety and crash protective equipment, road network, related road safety works and international safety performance. The safety rating is used for predicting safety outcome in key accident scenarios for given designs or providing a retrospective assessment based on accident data. What is NCAP? NCAP stands for “New Car Assessment Program” and is defined as a safety rating for vehicle safety level. NCAP was established in order to achieve the global and national Sustainable Development Goals for safer vehicles. NCAP conducts crash tests using official protocols on production vehicles. Then, the test data are converted into an easy-to-understand format that allows consumers to easily compare vehicle safety ratings.