The revised IIHS side impact test barrier now weighs 4200 pounds, which is a 900 pound increase over the older 3300-pound test barrier. This new side impact barrier is supposed to more accurately ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is considering beefing up its side-impact crash test, one of eight evaluations that inform the agency’s influential safety awards, with a revamped test ...

Forensic science is put to the test after the first-ever staged multi-vehicle pileup. Car safety experts just pulled off a first-of-its-kind remote controlled multi-vehicle pile up. Now investigators ...

In my January 2024 column, I reported on a new ASTM test method for use in assessing the damage tolerance of sandwich composites under compression loading: the sandwich compression-after-impact (CAI) ...