For three decades, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been smashing vehicles with an adult-sized dummy sitting in the front seat, simulating a type of head-on collision where two ...

Bald, faceless and empirically lifelike, this dummy may not be much to look at. But experts say it is a quantum leap forward in a decades-long effort to make cars safer for women. In November, ...

In the early days of crash testing in the 1990s, few vehicles were able to achieve top scores in occupant protection, but nowadays most modern cars pass with flying colors. Late last year Euro NCAP ...

The inaugural round of vehicles subjected to the updated whiplash prevention test were 18 small SUVs, though only four earned the IIHS' top rating of good. We previously covered the entire list of ...