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 ...

Would your SUV ace a front crash test? Odds aren't great. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that only one small SUV got a good rating in the agency's newly updated test ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has acceded to a formal request that it consider requiring that new trucks be equipped with forward-collision-mitigation systems that ...