2014

While an individual may opt for a smaller automobile in order to save on gas mileage and be a bit more environmentally friendly in the process, a new report shows that there could be one drawback to these vehicles:  they may not be as safe as their larger counterparts in some situations. The report from… read more

For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted a series of tests on small cars in a bid to deduce how those vehicles would fare in overlap accidents, which is what happens when the front corner of a vehicle is the contact point for a crash.  For half of all those cars… read more

A unique crash test has called into question the safety of eight different luxury cars, including models from Lexus, Mercedes, and BMW.  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has stated that these companies failed to adequately provide protection among their vehicles in situations where the front corner of the vehicle is the fulcrum point of… read more

Drivers of new lightweight cars are far more likely to suffer death or serious injury in a crash than the Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) predicts, according to the spokesman for the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland. He says this is primarily because ANCAP testing does not take into account the heavier weight of… read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and American car makers have been conducting crash tests for decades, but only with dummies modeled after the male anatomy. That’s changed recently thanks to new dummy designs that represent females, and the test results achieved using these dummies will be used to enhance the vehicle safety ratings system,… read more