We've all seen a crash test dummy, and some of us have even been compared to them. These bright yellow test dummies have long ...

Toyota's Daihatsu admitted to crash test fraud affecting 64 models since 1989, using fake safety features never installed in ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s small overlap front crash test was added to the organization’s testing regimen in 2012, and it’s proving to have an impact in real-world crashes. According ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) began performing tougher new side impact crash testing last year designed to better replicate real-world situations involving impacts from SUVs and ...

"Impact" encore Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app The two-part NOVA special ULTIMATE CRASH TEST explores what really happens in a multi-vehicle collision ...

Last year the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) began running tougher new side impact crash testing designed to replicate real-world situations involving impacts from SUVs. The results are ...

The Hyundai Grand i10, the brand’s best-selling car in South Africa, has scored a zero-star rating for adult occupant ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash-tested seven model-year 2025 electric vehicles, but none earned either of the agency’s awards. Only the Nissan Ariya and Chevrolet Blazer EV were ...

September 13, 1899. That's the first time on the historical record (in the U.S.) that a person was killed by a car, and it would be far from the last. According to the NSC, motor-vehicle deaths in the ...

Just like the cars out on the road, regulators intentionally crashed planes for 75 years to better learn how to better design aircraft for increase occupant survivability. However, every new plane ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has finally approved the use of a female crash test dummy after almost half a century of attempts. Meet THOR-05F ...