The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash ... to airbag design that can reduce the risk of brain injuries. Currently, IIHS loads its test vehicles with two types of dummy.

The IIHS will begin evaluating how well vehicles protect occupants from rotational brain injuries.

Heck, our own Troy Siahaan has proven himself time and time again to be a most excellent crash test dummy and because of this, he won’t be caught on two wheels without an airbag between him and ...

Instrument-bearing, seat-belted crash-test dummies in the two front seats record ... the test poses new challenges to some safety-belt and air-bag systems. Even though this is a frontal crash ...

Until now, there has not been an effective way to assess the risk of rotational brain injury in crash tests. However, thanks ...

Dummy injury measurements recorded during the crash test showed the driver would've faced a high risk of a fatal skull fracture and brain injury. It's due to the lack of an airbag inside the ...

Without airbag protection ... compared with relatively stiff and precisely positioned crash test dummies. Not all drivers are the same size as the dummy or seated the same way.

The solution, some suggest, lies in deploying female crash test dummies to ensure vehicles are truly safe for women. However, making cars safer for women is complicated, and not everyone agrees ...

Crash safety is evolving, and a new metric could help better evaluate brain injury risks caused by rotational forces during accidents. While modern vehicles ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced the results of its 2014 sub-compact crash tests ... the driver. The dummy’s head barely touched the Fit’s airbag before sliding off and ...

The Accord outperformed other midsize cars in the updated “moderate overlap front crash ... airbag. To encourage manufacturers to improve rear-seat protection, the updated test adds a dummy ...