Seven out of eight small SUVs performed well in the rear crash prevention tests conducted recently by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which addresses low-speed backing crashes that account for a large portion of insurance claims. The Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Mitsubishi ...

My columns in March and April 2023 were about sequential versus mileage-based exit numbering for interstate highways. The columns explained the difference, noting that in New York state, sequential numbering was used with a couple of exceptions. The April column requested opinions from readers ...

As both partial driving automation and highly automated vehicles become more common, we lack commonsense rules to guide their use and collect safety data. So says David Kidd, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) senior research scientist. According to research from the IIHS, ...

Last week’s Did You Know column was about a close call I had with a rider of an e-bike that was riding illegally against traffic rather than with it. A previous Did You Know column explaining the applicable laws for e-bikes was about three years ago, shortly after e-bikes became legal in New ...

There probably isn’t a driver that hasn’t experienced at least one close call while driving, assuming he or she has been driving for at least a year. I recently had one and I want to elaborate on how it took place, as I see violations of the root cause daily. The violation? Illegally riding ...

More than 60% of drivers would find it acceptable if vehicles provided an audible and visual warning when they exceeded the posted speed limit. That’s according to a new survey from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). More surprisingly, about half of drivers say they ...