Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:30:58 +0000
Driver assistance technologies have great promise, but in practice they allow some people to do things they shouldn’t do behind the wheel.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:23:29 +0000
The latest report from IIHS finds some partial automated driving systems are far less effective than drivers are led to believe.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:53:30 +0000
As we’ve covered for years, electric vehicles have innate safety advantages, and it’s also easier to design them for higher levels of safety in multiple ways. I could go on, but we have a fresh new report just on this topic — The EV Safety Advantage. Apparently, it already needs … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:40:10 +0000
The latest report from IIHS gives all but one automated driving technology a poor rating, including Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:21:57 +0000
A bill in the California legislature would require new cars to come with speed limiters beginning with model year 2027 vehicles.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:29:34 +0000
The Volvo XC90 and XC90 Recharge both received a Top Safety Pick + rating from IIHS following this year’s stricter testing protocols.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 04:50:38 +0000
The IIHS has made it tougher for vehicles to earn a top safety award in 2023. Many perennial favorites did not make the cut this year.
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:05:30 +0000
That SUV or crossover you bought to keep your kids safe may not be as safe as you thought — and the IIHS just proved it!
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:26:20 +0000
A new survey from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows that smartphone app usage among gig-economy workers is 4 times more likely to occur than among other drivers. The study also reveals that parents are nearly 50% more prone to routinely making video calls, checking weather reports, and other types of smartphone-enabled distractions […]
Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:30:39 +0000
A few days ago, we wrote about Tesla earning the Top safety score (TOP SAFETY PICK+) from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). I had publicly asked them last month why they hadn’t yet tested the car and was happy to get a reply that they were working on it. I’m not surprised how things turned out