Need proof that cars are much safer than they were 30 years ago? The red oval thing near the pillar on this blue 1995 Blazer ...

Thousands of lives and billions of dollars have been saved thanks to advances in crash tests and vehicle safety.

Extreme car crash testing shows what really happens when vehicles are pushed into hard impacts, violent collisions, and ...

On a sunny day, a Mazda CX-5 was accelerated to 40 mph and purposely driven toward an object to test whether it would hit it.

Vehicle improvements spurred by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)’s testing program have saved nearly 50,000 ...

IIHS crashed a 1996 Chevrolet Blazer into a 2026 model to gauge how much progress has been made in the 30 years it's been crash-testing cars. Spoiler: There's been a lot.

To put the Chevy Bolt back into production on schedule, GM engineers relied on virtual crash testing software to "reduce the number of cars we run into walls." Virtual crash testing is exactly what it ...

2026 Hyundai Palisade, Toyota Prius earn Top Safety Pick+ awards from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Award requires excellent performance in three crash tests and other safety evaluations ...

The Toyota Prius passed the moderate overlap front test with a good rating in 2025 that helped push it toward a Top Safety Pick+ award in 2026. Most of the latest batch of cars didn’t fare well in the ...

Ahead of its scheduled official launch at the end of the month, images of the crash-tested vehicle emerge online. Crash testing isn’t glamorous, but the Chery-Jaguar-Land Rover partnership has had the ...

Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives each year. Now, a new group is hoping to ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crashes about 80 new cars annually to identify safety flaws. IIHS uses real-world crash data to determine which tests to conduct and how to improve ...