The IIHS now does the moderate overlap crash test with a dummy in the seat behind the driver to evaluate rear-seat crash protection. The group added new performance criteria for the rear-seat ...

Related: Automakers Respond Quickly to New IIHS Front Crash-Prevention Test The smaller number is not ... the size of a small woman or a 12-year-old child in the rear seat directly behind the ...

Road & Track asked IIHS spokesperson Joe Young to explain ... performance in [the] updated moderate overlap crash test,” Young says. See, the new moderate overlap front test takes a rear seat ...

The new IIHS crash avoidance system metrics test vehicles at 31, 37, and 43 miles per hour, whereas the original test ran at 12 and 25 mph. The revised tests also evaluate crash avoidance of ...

To better assess real-world safety outcomes, IIHS introduced a new crash test dummy representing a small woman or a ...

A particularly challenging hurdle for automakers was the IIHS’s redesigned moderate overlap front test ... The IIHS used a crash dummy around the size of a 12-year-old child since children ...

Enhanced safety requirements meant only three Detroit models won this year – the Chevrolet Traverse, the Ford Mustang Mach-E ...

2025 Hyundai Santa Fe in the IIHS updated moderate overlap crash test A good rating in the IIHS ... again challenging automakers to make their new models even safer than those they were building ...

An updated front overlap test taking into account rear seat occupants reduced the total number of winners compared to 2024.