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 ...

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 ...

Front crash prevention systems aren’t as good at preventing crashes with large trucks and motorcycles as they are crashes with cars, two new studies from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ...

DETROIT — Old cars can learn new tricks. For a few hundred dollars, drivers can add new safety technology — like forward collision warning systems or backup cameras — to older cars. Cars are lasting ...