Car Safety

  • Jaguar Land Rover self-driving car

    Thanks to modern communications and sensor technology, it will soon be possible for cars to know what's immediately around them even when the line of site is blocked, in a sense making them able to see around corners. This ability is one of the core pillars of most self-driving systems being developed, including that from Jaguar Land Rover. But even if you prefer to drive yourself the ability for a car to know what's around a blind corner is definitely a bonus. Jaguar Land Rover on Friday announced it is leading a project called Autoplex that looks to create a system combining car-to-car and...

  • Pagani Huayra, 2013 Geneva Motor Show
    There's a recall notice for the Pagani Huayra

    This story isn't for you. It's for the handful of people out there who own Pagani Huayra coupes and roadsters, including the track-focused BC. There's a recall notice owners need to be made aware of, and it covers all 16 examples of the Pagani supercar produced in 2017 that have made it into the...

  • Uber self-driving car
    Arizona blocks Uber from testing self-driving cars on state's roads

    Arizona on Monday blocked Uber from conducting further tests of self-driving cars on the state's roads as a result of last week's fatal crash involving a pedestrian and one of the test cars. In a letter sent to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and shared with Bloomberg, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey said...

  • Here's how the new Formula 1 Halo affects visibility
    Here's how Formula 1's Halo affects visibility

    A major talking point for the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship has been the introduction of the Halo driver protection system. You've just seen the drivers race with it during Sunday's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, and the affect it has on driver vision to how it holds up in the event of an...

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R Formula 1 safety car
    2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R is F1's fastest safety car yet

    Mercedes-AMG's 577-horsepower GT R is taking over from the GT S as Formula 1's official safety car. AMG has been supplying safety cars for F1 since 1996. The GT R will be the fastest yet, however, with its top speed clocked at 197 mph. The car is also the most powerful safety car in F1 history. The...

  • 2019 Ford Edge
    Ford rolling out Co-Pilot360 active safety systems as standard on most vehicles

    Ford will join a handful of other automakers in making many active safety features standard through a suite of technologies bundled in what the automaker calls Co-Pilot360. The automaker announced on Thursday that the 2019 Ford Edge and Edge ST to be released this fall will be the first vehicles to...

  • Hyundai panorama airbag for panoramic sunroofs

    Hyundai Mobis, a long-time South Korea automotive supplier with obvious ties to Hyundai, introduced a world-first piece of safety equipment this past Saturday. Feast your eyes on the very first production panorama sunroof airbag. The airbag covers the almost the entire open portion of a panoramic sunroof, which extends past the front seats and into the rear seats. Hyundai Mobis' design is very similar to a side-curtain airbag, which deploys alongside the windows in the event of a side-impact crash. The panorama airbag deploys if the vehicle is involved in a rollover crash. The sensors detect...

  • Aston Martin DBS
    Aston Martin recalls over 5,000 cars in US

    Aston Martin has issued a pair of recalls that affect a significant portion of its customers in the United States as over 5,000 cars are involved. The more concerning of the recalls deals with the 6-speed automatic transmission fitted to 3,493 cars made up of the following models: 2009-2016 Aston...

  • 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe PPV
    Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle adds safety tech

    While the police work to keep us safe, automakers are interested in the safety of the officers. General Motors has announced a slate of new safety features for its updated 2018 Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle, and all of them work together to make daily driving duty a potentially safer task...

  • 2018 BMW i3s
    BMW issues stop-sale order and recall on all i3 electric cars

    BMW last week issued a stop-sale order and recall for every i3 in the United States, meaning from the 2014 model up to the present 2018 car. A total 30,542 cars are affected. The cause? It seems that in a recent round of testing, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determined that a...

  • Nissan IMx concept, 2017 Tokyo Motor Show
    Nissan will give its future electric cars a sound with "Canto"

    Nissan's revealed its major debut for the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show with the IMx self-driving electric SUV concept. While the brand covered many of the technical details with its reveal, it saved one last thing for a separate presentation. Nissan's future electric cars will sing a song, a song called...

  • Nissan sweat-sensing seats to curb dehydration
    Nissan wants to fight dehydration with sweat-sensing seats

    The consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol are well documented. However, there's something much more common that happens every single day: driving while not properly hydrated. Nissan wants to help combat dehydrated driving and teamed up with Droog, a Dutch design brand, to create a...

  • 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia crash test

    Alfa Romeo’s Giulia has been shown to be one of the safest options in its class. The small luxury sedan aced the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s latest round of testing, for which it achieved the institute’s highest rating of "Top Safety Pick+." To earn the Top Safety Pick+ rating, a vehicle must achieve the highest possible score, a score of “good,” in the five tests used by IIHS to evaluate crash safety performance. The tests include small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraints. Vehicles also need an...

  • Ford patents active thigh support
    Ford loves patents and just added one for active thigh support

    Ford has been on quite the patent kick as of late. The Blue Oval has recently filed patents for odd steering wheels, an interesting integrated bike rack, a system for a removable steering wheel and pedal box, and even a self-leveling cupholder. Ford is looking to bring some innovative new features...

  • Nissan’s video-streaming rearview mirror
    2018 Armada is first Nissan with video-streaming rearview mirror

    Nissan is the latest automaker to introduce a video-streaming rearview mirror, which the Japanese automaker is calling an Intelligent Rearview Mirror (I-RVM). We first saw the technology introduced by Cadillac on the 2016 CT6. What it is, essentially, is a traditional rearview mirror with an...

  • broken guardrail
    Study shows taller guardrails could save lives

    Motorists likely take it for granted, but countless hours of engineering and research go into planning even some of the most mundane components of our transportation system. That includes guardrails lining thousands of miles of U.S. roads. A recent study shows said guardrails may be due for a...

  • 2016 Ferrari Formula One car equipped with Halo cockpit protection
    FIA decides on Halo cockpit protection for F1

    Formula One cars will have to be fitted with the Halo cockpit protection system starting from the 2018 World Championship, motorsport’s organizing body, the FIA, has decided. While it had seemed that the competing Shield design was the more popular option, the FIA said on Wednesday that the...

  • Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel tests Formula One’s proposed Shield cockpit protection system
    Ferrari starts testing F1’s Shield cockpit protection system

    Formula One organizers along with the FIA came out with the statement in April that a Shield was the preferred cockpit protection solution to be introduced for the 2018 World Championship, as opposed to the previously preferred Halo solution which teams started testing in 2016. During...

  • Tesla Model S after IIHS small-overlap frontal crash test, late 2016   [frame from IIHS video]

    The Tesla Model S has consistently ranked at the top of independent crash tests since its debut earlier this decade, leading to its reputation as one of the safest cars in production. However, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety only gave the electric sedan an “Acceptable” rating in 2016 for its small overlap front crash test. The tough test simulates an offset frontal collision at 40 mph, a scenario the IIHS says is responsible for roughly 25 percent of deaths and injuries in frontal collisions. In the 2016 test, the IIHS said the Model S ran into problems when the seat...

  • This is how a sinkhole forms
    Here's how those sinkholes that sometimes swallow cars actually form

    A sinkhole is a devastating, geological assassin. It arrives seemingly out of nowhere and can cause serious destruction to roadways, homes and cars. But how does such a dangerous situation manifest right below our feet and tires? It's mostly related to water. This video provides a great visual...

  • Takata logo (photo by Flickr user jo.schz)
    Troubled airbag manufacturer Takata files for bankruptcy

    Troubled Japanese parts supplier Takata has filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan and the United States. Takata’s debts have spiraled to an estimated $9 billion due to the massive recall program for defective airbags supplied to almost two dozen automakers and used in an estimated 100...

  • 2018 Mercedes-Benz S-Class
    Mercedes-Benz details suite of active safety features coming to 2018 S-Class

    The 2018 Mercedes-Benz S-Class ushers in refreshed looks, new powertrains, and a repackaged interior, but the changes go further than skin deep. Specifically, Mercedes is ratcheting up the active safety features with the S-Class' mid-cycle refresh. The nervous system of the entire driver assistance...

  • Red Bull Racing Aeroscreen cockpit protection
    F1 organizers now favor Shield over Halo for cockpit protection

    Formula One organizers late last week came out with the statement that a new Shield was the preferred cockpit protection solution to be introduced next year, as opposed to the previously preferred Halo solution which has been in development for the past several years and already tested by a number...

  • Cadillac vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications
    Cadillac announces V2V communications, just as CIA hacking allegations emerge

    Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, along with vehicle vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications, is seen as a key stepping stone towards the safe deployment of fully self-driving cars. But while regulators slowly climb onboard with the establishment of rules and common standards for car...

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