Daylight saving time keeps walkers safer
Apr 11, 2024 — While fewer pedestrians are killed when the clocks change, vehicle occupants fare worse, making the net effect minimal.
Apr 11, 2024 — While fewer pedestrians are killed when the clocks change, vehicle occupants fare worse, making the net effect minimal.
Apr 2, 2024 — A good rating in the updated moderate overlap front test boosts the electric pickup to Top Safety Pick+ status.
Mar 27, 2024 — Performance and adrenaline are commonly used to sell cars, SUVs and pickups, even as speed is implicated in more than 12,000 road deaths a year.
Mar 21, 2024 — Jeff Kinsey, assistant vice president and actuary at State Farm Insurance Companies, has been elected chair of the HLDI Board of Directors for 2024.
Mar 12, 2024 — Only one of 14 partial driving automation systems evaluated earns an acceptable rating for its safeguards designed to prevent misuse and lapses of attention.
Mar 6, 2024 — It’s been more than two years since Congress asked NHTSA to issue a rule requiring vehicles to have technology that prevents alcohol-impaired driving.
Feb 27, 2024 — The new requirements challenge automakers to offer better protection for back seat passengers and improve their pedestrian crash avoidance systems.
Feb 22, 2024 — The updated moderate overlap front crash test now uses a new formula to determine injury risk that better accounts for variations in the position of the rear shoulder belt on the dummy’s chest.
Jan 24, 2024 — Forty-seven out of 54 booster seats introduced last year earn the highest IIHS rating of Best Bet.
Jan 17, 2024 — Bill Westrate, chair and chief executive officer of American Family Insurance, has been elected chair of the IIHS Board of Directors for 2024.
Dec 21, 2023 — Front crash prevention systems aren’t as good at preventing crashes with large trucks and motorcycles as they are crashes with cars. An upcoming IIHS ratings program aims to change that.
Dec 21, 2023 — All 20 participating automakers have fulfilled a voluntary pledge to equip nearly all the light vehicles they produce for the U.S. market with automatic emergency braking.
Dec 20, 2023 — The minivan qualifies for a Top Safety Pick award with an acceptable rating in the updated side crash test.
Dec 15, 2023 — The Elantra and Tucson earn Top Safety Pick+ awards.
Dec 14, 2023 — Three out of eight midsize luxury SUVs earn good ratings in the updated moderate overlap front crash test, while two more are rated acceptable.
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