Women are statistically more likely than men to suffer a moderate to severe injury in a car crash, and the industry is just beginning to look at this issue. One thing that most drivers probably don’t ...

Tom started his career as a daily newspaper reporter in metro Detroit and after a decade changed course to cover cars, spending the next 25 years at Wards Automotive doing test drives, technology and ...

Extreme car crash testing shows what really happens when vehicles are pushed into hard impacts, violent collisions, and serious safety tests designed to reveal their limits. This video follows the ...

The Toyota Prius passed the moderate overlap front test with a good rating in 2025 that helped push it toward a Top Safety Pick+ award in 2026. Most of the latest batch of cars didn’t fare well in the ...

Lie down in a car, and you’re more likely to get seriously hurt in a crash. But a driverless future is forcing governments to revisit long-standing safety issues.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crashes about 80 new cars annually to identify safety flaws. IIHS uses real-world crash data to determine which tests to conduct and how to improve ...

If you want to understand how far automotive engineering has come in the last three decades, you don’t look at horsepower figures, touchscreen diagonals, or zero-to-60 times. You look at a severed ...

Standardized crash testing has saved hundreds of thousands of lives by requiring greater occupant protection in vehicles. The stark before-and-after difference between cars that were and were not ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started crash-testing cars in 1996. To mark the 30th anniversary of its crash-testing program, IIHS crashed a 1996 Chevrolet Blazer into a 2026 model. Only ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released its latest crash-test data and shared which vehicles performed best in its crashworthiness and collision avoidance testing. Only four of the ...

Pedestrian safety has become a major part of modern vehicle testing, as advanced driver assistance systems are expected to ...