About The Auto Professor®
Auto Grades is the most modern car safety rating system available today. We use the best information available to form our ratings. Real data about what happened to real people in real crashes. We are the only personal safety rating system. When you use Auto Grades to pick your next car, you have peace of mind. You have chosen the best car to protect the ones you love.
That’s where Dr. Norma Faris Hubele, The Auto Professor, comes in. She and her team take the experience of real people in real crashes and rank cars by how well they protected their drivers in the worst crashes. These rankings, our Auto Grades, are not formed in a lab. They are formed on our roads, in our cities, with the cars we are driving now.
Why Trust Us
What Drives Us:
- We believe that consumers deserve to know more about the cars they drive.
- We are experts at unlocking real crash data.
- We freely share with car buyers our knowledge – real, unbiased information.
- We empower car buyers with this information to make their decisions.
- We are fueled by love and driven by conviction.
- Together, we want to create a world where everyone walks away from a crash.
While driver behaviors, road conditions, safety features, and our physical characteristics may affect our risk of injury, the car we drive may make a big difference in the outcome of a crash. Automobile companies want to ensure that their customers are safe on the road, but they are also concerned about their cars’ safety ratings. These traditional safety ratings are based on the experience of crash test dummies.
At the end of the day, dummies are not the ones driving cars. We are. These traditional safety ratings have played a big role, but now we find ourselves in a new age, with new information at our disposal. That’s where The Auto Professor comes in. We take the experience of real people in real crashes and rank cars by how well they protected their drivers in the worst crashes. These rankings, our Auto Grades, are not formed in a lab. They are formed on our roads, in our cities, with the cars we are driving now.
The Auto Professor isn’t here to take sides. We are here to provide information that will be useful to the American driver. At The Auto Professor we take safety seriously … because it would be irresponsible not to™.
Meet The Data Scientists
The Auto Professor team is led by our highly qualified data scientists, who have over 50 years of experience working with automotive safety and other life-or-death statistics. Our rankings, in the form of Auto Grades, come from their analyses of crash data gathered on our roads, in our cities, and from cars we are driving now.
Dr. Norma Faris Hubele
Founder & CEO
A statistician and educator for more than thirty years, Norma has spent her life serving the public as a professor, consumer advocate, and automotive safety expert …
Dr. Kathryn Kennedy
Chief Technical Officer
A statistician, engineer, and data scientist, Kathryn has spent her career turning data into information and knowledge in high-stakes contexts …
