Consumer Reports, Insurance Safety Institute to Rate Vehicle Driver Automation Systems January 21, 2022 By David Shepardson Two nonprofit bodies, Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), said separately on Thursday they are reviewing...
Adaptive Cruise Control Raises Crash Risks, U.S. Study Finds March 12, 2021 Adaptive cruise control systems on cars, which control braking and speed, raise the risk of traffic crashes because the technology...
Study: Electronics Could Stop 40% of Big Truck Rear Crashes September 4, 2020 By Tom Krisher DETROIT — Safety features such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warnings could prevent more than 40% of crashes...
SUVs More Deadly to Pedestrians Than Passenger Cars, Says Insurance Safety Study June 16, 2020 SUVs are more likely than passenger cars to injure or kill pedestrians, according to a new U.S. insurance industry study...
Institute Says Self-Driving Cars Could Prevent Only a Third of U.S. Crashes June 4, 2020 By Tina Bellon Self-driving cars, long touted by developers as a way to eliminate road deaths, could likely only prevent a third of...
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...
Tesla Model 3 Wins Top-Tier Safety Award from Insurance Group September 19, 2019 By Chester Dawson Tesla Inc.’s Model 3 earned a coveted Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, after the...
Tesla’s Autopilot Found Most Likely to Confuse Drivers on Safety June 21, 2019 By Kyle Lahucik Automakers including Tesla Inc. are stoking confusion among motorists by choosing names for their automated-driving systems that wrongly suggest they’re...
Commentary: Graduated Driver Licensing Laws Need to Be Expanded in the U.S. June 2, 2016 Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the leading cause of death among U.S. teens. In 2012, 184,000 young drivers were injured...
Toyota, Honda, VW Top Insurance Institute’s Safest Car List December 10, 2015 By Jeff Plungis Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG had the most models rated among the safest U.S. vehicles in a...