The IIHS will begin evaluating how well vehicles protect occupants from rotational brain injuries.

New advanced driver assistance technologies and crashworthiness pedestrian protection are among the planned upgrades to the 5-Star Safety Ratings program, known as the New Car Assessment Program ...

Many things suggest safety, such as a long list of in-car features like lane departure warnings and airbags, but the true test is generally the crash test ratings a vehicle receives. Vehicles can ...

The first crash test dummy was created in 1949 to improve safety for airplane pilots. One of the earliest recorded crash tests happened a decade after the creation of the first cr ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash-tests cars and determines safety ratings based on four factors: Measurements from dummies, survival space, airbags, and seat belt effectiveness.

This is a crash course on the science behind crash testing and the crash test rating system. To explain how car crash testing is conducted, we will refer to the system used by the National Highway ...

That’s because these vehicles have no publicly available crash-test ratings. The same is true for the Tesla Cybertruck. Although Tesla has made bold safety claims about the vehicle and released ...

A new study reveals which car brands have dominated the safety ratings game in the U.S. over the last decade, shedding light on which automakers prioritize keeping their vehicles as safe as ...

The cars were rated for their performance in the ... The IIHS tests are more stringent than the U.S. government's full-width front crash test. The institute says that in many vehicles, a crash ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: You're looking at a failed crash test. The car, a Maruti Suzuki S-Presso, received a rating of zero stars for failing to protect passengers in a ...