Car buyers who look up the Jaguar F-Pace's crash-test results on NHTSA's website will find no publicly available ratings. For mainstream vehicles that are new to the market, buyers may have to ...

The perception that SUVs are safer in an accident is a key part of their appeal, but what about the ones with the worst ...

In 1978, the NHTSA began testing and rating vehicles based on front impact protection using data gained from crash test dummies. By 1993, the NHTSA started using a five-star rating system to help ...

We found out a couple of weeks ago that the Tesla Model S aced the crash tests administered by ... to recording the best result of any car the NHTSA has ever tested. While NHTSA's highest public ...

U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have reintroduced legislation calling for the modernization of vehicle safety tests, including the use of female crash test dummies.  The ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses dummies that are 4-foot-11 and weigh 97 to 108 pounds to represent ...

The first crash test dummy was created in 1949 to improve safety for airplane pilots. One of the earliest recorded crash tests happened a decade after the creation of the first cr ...