Subarus are exceptionally safe, according to experts at the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), as well as the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS). The OEM was recently recognized by AJAC for the “Best Safety Innovation” for the new …
New cars withstand crashes better than ever, yet U.S. traffic fatalities hit a 20-year high in the first half of 2022. Such contradictory data helps explain why the IIHS has toughened its safety criteria for the automotive industry’s most stringent …
Electric cars are different in many ways and one of them is the way they crash. But are they better or worse than a conventional car? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the best-known evaluator of vehicle safety, recently tuned …
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is updating its longest-running crash test, the moderate overlap front evaluation, to address a growing gap in the protection provided for front and rear occupants. In the first tests, only two out of 15 …
According to recent results published by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) small trucks are much safer now than they used to be, in part because “small trucks” are not actually so small any more. New test data from the …
Volkswagen trimmed the Golf lineup in the United States, leaving just the high-performance GTI and Golf R on sale. The pair got a complete overhaul for the 2022 model year, bringing them into their eighth generation, and while their focus …
The 2022 Subaru Forester joins the 2022 Toyota Corolla Cross and 2022 Toyota RAV4 Prime as the latest crossovers to earn a Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the insurance-industry funded nonprofit said in a …
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and Consumer Reports have provided a first-ever list of the most recommended used vehicles for teens. In curating this list the industry leaders considered price, performance, reliability and safety, among other criteria. Based …
SUVs may be contributing to a higher pedestrian fatality rate, according to research published by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The study indicates that pedestrian deaths increased between 2009 and 2018 in the U.S., as SUVs were becoming …
Inadequacies in current systems highlight challenges to achieving full autonomy We’re just two or three years away — maybe less — from having fully autonomous vehicles in our showrooms and on our roads, if you believe the most optimistic hype …
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING COULD HAVE A FAR GREATER IMPACT ON SOCIETY THAN PERHAPS WE REALIZE Over the last several years, autonomous vehicle technology has rarely been out of the headlines. Read almost any auto industry publication (including this one) and you’ll …
