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 ...

The blank expression of a hapless crash test dummy has become the face of automotive safety in the US, effectively serving as a mascot for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, featuring in ...

No fancy test crash lab was used, just a big open stretch of asphalt and a wire-guided mechanism to launch the cars. Their method for measuring the velocity of impact for unrestrained objects on ...

At the lab, workers drain the cars of fluids and ... seat belt keeps the dummy within the vehicle. The IIHS uses six crash tests to determine a car's safety rating. There are three frontal crash ...

Go behind-the-scenes to see the science of how we evaluate child car seats for crash protection. This special episode of the Talking Cars video podcast comes to you from the contracted test labs ...