Insight
Setting our sights on 30x30
Feb 20, 2025 — It’s time to get serious about reducing the toll of crashes. Let’s commit to cutting road fatalities 30% by 2030.
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Fast improvements in front crash prevention
Feb 12, 2025 — Twenty-two of the latest 30 vehicles evaluated earn a good or acceptable rating in the new front crash prevention test, which requires systems to be able to prevent or substantially mitigate crashes at higher speeds.
Extra large doesn’t mean extra safe
Feb 5, 2025 — The safety benefits of larger vehicles top out quickly once curb weights exceed the fleet average, a new IIHS study shows.
Insight
Getting smarter about brain injuries
Jan 30, 2025 — A new crash test metric is helping us assess the risk posed by head-whipping motions during collisions.
Comparing crosswalk signals
Jan 22, 2025 — Pedestrian beacons that cycle through caution phases before signaling drivers to stop are best for busy crossing points, while yellow flashers are better for areas with less traffic, a new IIHS study shows.
Reflective clothing confounds vehicle tech
Jan 9, 2025 — Reflective clothing makes pedestrians stand out to human drivers, but it may make them invisible to automated crash prevention systems.
Another 19 vehicles earn IIHS awards
Dec 17, 2024 — The 2024 winner's circle expands with 10 more vehicles earning Top Safety Pick+ and nine earning Top Safety Pick.
Vehicle height amplifies dangers of speed
Dec 10, 2024 — New pedestrian injury risk curves calculated by IIHS show that vehicles with taller front ends begin to cause serious injuries at lower speeds.
Keeping drivers switched on
Nov 26, 2024 — Drivers who are used to partial automation that turns off when they try to share control over the steering are less willing to steer or put their hands on the wheel in sticky situations.
Four vehicles fall short in IIHS tests
Oct 31, 2024 — The recently updated moderate overlap front test tripped up two vehicles, while another pair stumbled in the longstanding small overlap test.
Lax helmet laws come with deadly cost
Oct 16, 2024 — More than 20,000 motorcyclists who died in crashes in the U.S. since the mid-1970s would have survived if stronger helmet laws had been in place.
Automakers beef up seat belt reminders
Oct 10, 2024 — More than 60% of 2024 models tested so far earn good ratings, compared with 17% in the program’s first year.
More drivers use safety tech
Oct 1, 2024 — Almost 9 out of 10 drivers of equipped vehicles keep lane departure warning and prevention systems switched on. Seven of 10 use anti-speeding alerts.
Paying attention or faking it?
Sep 17, 2024 — Drivers are more likely to multitask when using partial automation. Some manage to do so even while playing by the rules of the systems’ attention requirements.
Eight more vehicles qualify for awards
Sep 12, 2024 — The new winners bring the total number of vehicles earning this year’s Top Safety Pick+ award to 38 and the number earning Top Safety Pick to 53.