The new Consumer Reports safety verdict highlights the safest new cars and gives you an easy way to know which vehicles will ...

CR’s experts say there are three factors that matter most when it comes to safety: A vehicle’s ability to avoid a crash. Its ...

Absent a federal standard, states that allow autonomous vehicles, or AVs, to circulate have had to make up their own rules.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration collects crash data about autonomous vehicles, but only issues voluntary guidelines about expectations for those vehicles. Those guidelines softened ...

Peering out a window at Torslanda Works, one of Volvo's largest production facilities in Sweden, reveals a side lot filled with crashed cars. The automaker still conducts physical crash tests of ...

Better engineering has made the front seat much safer in head-on collisions. But the back seat hasn't kept pace. It's a ...

Female crash test dummies would be used in determining vehicle safety under a bipartisan bill sponsored by Alabama’s junior senator aimed at modernizing standards. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., is ...

WASHINGTON — Maria Weston Kuhn was on vacation with her family when a head-on car crash changed her life. Kuhn and her mother, both in the back seat, were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.

In the future, for a full score from Euro NCAP, cars will have to be significantly safer in some aspects than they are now.