The exponential advancements in automotive safety since the start of the 21st century are worth celebrating, but watchdog groups like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety believe there is always ...

Rear-end collisions are common, especially in areas where heavy traffic is an everyday occurrence. Even vigilant drivers sometimes lose focus, so automakers have stepped in with a technology that ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has developed a new test for evaluating collision-avoidance systems, and the first batch of test subjects — small SUVs — has struggled. The new test has a ...

WASHINGTON — Front crash prevention systems, which include forward-collision warning and automatic emergency braking, are less effective at preventing crashes with large trucks and motorcycles, ...

This week, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a special report entitled{}The Use of Forward Collision Avoidance Systems to Prevent and Mitigate Rear-End Crashes. In the 60-page document, ...