The exponential advancements in automotive safety since the start of the 21st century are worth celebrating, but watchdog groups like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety believe there is always ...

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 ...

It was less than a year ago that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety inaugurated an updated evaluation for forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking technologies, and automakers ...

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 ...

Nissan is working on a new collision-avoidance system that can detect vehicles approaching from the side at intersections, and apply the brakes automatically. The system uses a lidar sensor from ...

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), such as forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, camera-based mirrors, and blind-spot warning ...