Experts say the diversity of drivers has expanded at a faster clip than the tools the industry relies on to measure their ...

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Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

The NHTSA is set to get an advanced dummy to make crash testing more accurate. Built to represent 95 percent of the U.S. female population, THOR-5F will help crash testers more accurately model ...

Standardized crash testing has saved hundreds of thousands of lives by requiring greater occupant protection in vehicles. The stark before-and-after difference between cars that were and were not ...

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If you’re looking for an exceptionally safe car, there are six more models you should consider, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Hyundai Elantra and Sonata, Kia K4, Nissan ...

If you want to understand how far automotive engineering has come in the last three decades, you don’t look at horsepower figures, touchscreen diagonals, or zero-to-60 times. You look at a severed ...

The dummy strapped into a car at a test facility has a name and a very specific set of ancestors. Before anyone built one, the job it does now was done by the dead and by a small number of people who ...

The Q6 e-Tron aced the IIHS’ tests, earning top marks in every evaluation. The Enclave and Armada each missed a perfect score by just one category, with the Buick scoring an acceptable rating in the ...

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 ...

Women make up more than half of U.S. drivers, but are 73% more likely to suffer serious injuries in a crash than men, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They are 17% more ...