Women Face More Injury Risks in Car Crashes, But Test Dummies Are Modeled After Men June 24, 2025 By Jeff McMurray Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a...
Tesla Cybertruck’s Stiff Structure, Sharp Design Raise Safety Concerns December 11, 2023 By Akash Sriram and Hyunjoo Jin The angular design of Tesla’s Cybertruck has safety experts concerned the electric pickup truck’s stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians...
Questions Surround NASCAR’s Next Gen Cars After Race September 20, 2022 By JENNA FRYER Kyle Busch deserved better than two failed Toyota engines in the first round of NASCAR’s playoffs. But at least Busch...
64 US Vehicles Get Insurance Group’s Top Safety Rating February 14, 2020 By Tom Krisher DETROIT — Sixty-four cars and SUVs sold in the U.S. earned Top Safety Pick awards from the Insurance Institute for...
GAO: More Oversight of Roadside Safety Hardware Needed July 26, 2016 Road safety could be enhanced with better oversight of guardrails and other hardware, according to report issued last month by...
NHTSA Will Add Automatic Braking to Consumer Star Rating System January 26, 2015 By Jeff Plungis U.S. regulators will add automatic braking to a list of technologies considered as beneficial to safety in its influential star-rating...
Micro Cars Do Poorly in Crash Tests: IIHS January 22, 2014 Only 1 minicar out of 11 tested achieves an acceptable rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s small overlap...