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 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 ...

The Department of Transport and Main Roads looked into a new car safety technology called forward collision assistance technology (FCA), also known as autonomous emergency braking, to lessen the ...

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 ...

It was less than a year ago that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety inaugurated an updated evaluation for forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking technologies, and automakers ...

Twenty-two of the 30 vehicles evaluated earned a good or acceptable rating in a recent assessment, which requires systems to be able to prevent or substantially mitigate crashes at higher speeds.