When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “SORB,” the Small Overlap Rigid Barrier test, launched in 2012, many ...

A group of bipartisan women senators is pushing for more diversity in crash test dummies, hoping it will help solve the ...

Peering out a window at Torslanda Works, one of Volvo's largest production facilities in Sweden, reveals a side lot filled ...

The 2025 Volvo XC90 Plug-In Hybrid has just earned the IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ award, confirming its position as one of the ...

While it may be safer than the pre-facelift, the 2024 and newer Jeep Wrangler could use better headlights and more active ...

The THOR-5F, a more advanced female crash test dummy, is being developed. Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ...

The crash test dummy currently used in NHTSA five-star testing is called the Hybrid III, which was developed in 1978 and modeled after a 5-foot-9, 171-pound man (the average size in the 1970s but ...

How That Crash Test Becomes A Rating For vehicles it crashes in house, the IIHS bases ratings on the results it gets from dummy sensors, measurements of how vehicle structure holds up, and video ...

The Hybrid III (M) is the most commonly used crash test dummy and dates back to 1986. It represents a 50th percentile adult male and is 5-feet 9-inches (1.75 m) tall and weighs 171 lbs (78 kg).

Semi truck manufacturers crash test their vehicles before putting them on sale, and the slow-motion footage of these tests is terrifyingly satisfying to watch.

Besides excellent crash-test ratings — it was an IIHS Top Safety Pick from 2007 to 2013 then a Top Safety Pick+ from 2014 until 2016 — the S80 had safety features well ahead of other mass ...

Chest injuries and head or neck injuries would be likely in the F-150 and Ram 1500, crash test results showed. “The risk of those injuries was somewhat lower but still excessive in the Silverado.