Cadillac's Super Cruise System Detailed
13 May 2012, 11:36 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Self-driving cars are slowly taking over the automotive world and Google’s efforts in this regard are the living proof that drivers will no longer be needed very soon to travel from point A to...
US Youths Still Text While Driving Despite Knowing the Risks
10 May 2012, 12:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the general consensus being that doing, really, anything other than holding the wheel, while driving is bad, especially actions involving taking one’s eyes off the road. As a recent su...
Odd Safety Testing for the Nissan Leaf
9 May 2012, 16:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The danger of a high voltage electric shock is ever present in the minds of the people who drive today’s all-electric cars. Couple that with the fear of running out of juice and it may not be ...
Eating while Driving Deadlier than Using the Phone
7 May 2012, 12:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to make people aware of the dangers of doing, well, anything while driving, apart from driving, the University of Leeds has recently published a study called “Two Hands Better Tha...
Hyundai Fitting Throttle Override
3 May 2012, 16:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been considering mandatory throttle overrides in America since April 16th this year, but Hyundai hopes to jump the gun (in a good way) ...
Texting While Driving? Think again!
1 May 2012, 11:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The mobile phone is now omnipresent in our daily lives, and if we could and wanted to, we would attach it to our body and become 'phone-borgs'. At least we’d save ourselves the troub...
Cadillac's Super Cruise System Explained
1 May 2012, 09:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Cadillac’s new Super Cruise system is designed only for highway use, to ‘ease the driver’s workload.’ It is an upgrade to the already familiar adaptive cruise control, which ...
Mercedes-Benz Releases "Amy" Safety Video
12 Apr 2012, 08:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen, the adjacent video demonstrates how far the advertising industry has gone, with the clip being created by Mercedes-Benz to promote the safety of its vehicles. The spot uses ...
2013 Cadillac XTS Gets Vibrating Safety Alert Seat
28 Mar 2012, 08:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As the months go past and the market debut of the Cadillac XTS nears, it has become abundantly clear that this is more than just a large sedan with luxury features. It’s built in a very Americ...
Volvo Invents Pedestrian Airbag for V40
9 Mar 2012, 12:47 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo is so focused on safety that they didn’t stop to protecting the occupants. The Euro NCAP test will have to be rewritten after this car is done with them, because the V40 might be the fir...
Ford Focus Named Best Small Family Car by Euro NCAP
7 Feb 2012, 13:54 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Euro NCAP has recently named the Ford Focus “Best in Class” small family car, as a result of the vehicle’s crash test results and in recognition of its safety technology. The Focus...
NHTSA Looking to Reward Accident Avoidance Tech
13 Jan 2012, 15:31 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Safety bodies such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration constantly upgrade their rating, forcing automotive producers to make cars safer in order to receive the top score and it is ...
Subaru XV Receives Five-Star Euro NCAP Rating
23 Nov 2011, 16:20 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Subaru's Impreza-based crossover, the XV, has recently been tested by Euro NCAP, with the vehicle receiving a five-star safety rating: 86 percent for adult occupant protection, 90 percent for c...
2012 Volkswagen Beetle Earns 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating
23 Nov 2011, 15:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Euro NCAP has just released a new series of crash test results and we’re here to focus on the 2012 VW Beetle, a vehicle that was among the safest tested in this lot, with a five-star ratin...
Range Rover Evoque Gets Five-Star Euro NCAP Rating
23 Nov 2011, 15:12 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We tested the Range Rover Evoque earlier this year and were pleased with what we found, but we weren’t able to tell you how the vehicle behaves in the event of a crash. This is what Euro NCAP ...
Ford Focus: First Car with Four Euro NCAP Advanced Rewards
23 Nov 2011, 13:29 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The new Focus might be a global product, but we’ll concentrate on the European part of the deal for now, as the vehicle has become the first to receive four Euro NCAP Advanced safety awards af...
2013 Chevrolet Camaro: First Car to Receive Perfect 2011 NHTSA Score
15 Nov 2011, 17:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration introduced the New Car Assessment Program this year, with the move bringing lower ratings for cars that had previously received a five-star rating....
2012 Fiat 500 Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick
18 Oct 2011, 16:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Since the Fiat 500 didn’t register the sales boom it was expected to in the the US, the little car needs any help it can get to conquer America. Unfortunately, the fact that Jennifer Lopez ...
2012 Honda Civic Crash Test Safety Video Released
14 Oct 2011, 23:20 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Most important new cars receive a five-star Euro NCAP crash rating nowadays, which means that automotive producers have to make special marketing efforts in order to make their vehicles stand out in...
BMW Laser Headlights Photos Released
14 Oct 2011, 15:28 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We’ve already talked about how BMW plans to use laser technology for headlights, but it seems that the development is closer than we thought, with the carmaker also releasing a series of image...