It's not so much whether they are crash tested with each model or not, it's that people just show up in emergency rooms with those injuries (and door armrest imprints...ouch again...)...one of those things that just gets slowly designed out of cars, like metal flip down glove compartment doors that used to decapitate little kids, or metal radio knobs that implanted in people's faces...
Yeah, I had a Buick Rendezvous with a huge console (to fit your laptop, of course!) and I actually rubbed the sole of my shoe on it so hard when climbing over it to get to the kids in the back seat, that I never got the scuff off... that's when I went with the Ody and that flip down tray...love it! (My old CR-v had that, too... )
Of COURSE the car was parked when I was climbing around in it, lol (though people love that flip down tray and will write in reviews, "oh, we just walk back to the kids when we are on the freeway, doesn't everybody? I mean, who can sit still that long?"...ack)