Even in a laboratory, car crashes are horrifically violent. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash-tests many vehicles every year, and in its full-speed video footage, the subject vehicle ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has developed a new test for evaluating collision-avoidance systems, and the first batch of test subjects — small SUVs — has struggled. The new test has a ...

The capabilities of smaller-sized vehicles tend to be overlooked, but when it comes to IIHS safety ratings, it's critical to pay close attention.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) instituted a new rating program that evaluates partially automated driving systems. The new test evaluates features including driver monitoring, ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has started testing how cars prevent neck and back injuries caused by rear-end crashes to make our cars ever safer. However, of all the 18 small SUVs ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has several crash tests designed to evaluate the safety of passengers in different interior positions. It recently updated its moderate overlap front ...

The inaugural round of vehicles subjected to the updated whiplash prevention test were 18 small SUVs, though only four earned the IIHS' top rating of good. We previously covered the entire list of ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been slamming cars into barriers in the name of science for nearly 30 years, and modern cars are much safer thanks to its efforts. I have been ...

Whiplash injuries generally happen when a car is hit from behind, but can be minimised with well-designed seats and headrests.

The Tesla Cybertruck scored a 5-Star safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this year, but it will soon be facing a new challenge. The IIHS (Insurance Institute for ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety isn’t waiting around for the federal government to enact tougher roof strength standards for passenger vehicles. The IIHS has created its own new category of ...

In new, more stringent testing of the automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems in 10 small SUV models, only one—the 2023-24 Subaru Forester—received a top score. Four of the models received Poor ...