The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has awarded the 2026 Rivian R1S its TOP SAFETY PICK+ designation, the highest crashworthiness rating the organization grants. For buyers shopping the growing ...

Over the past 56 years, as vehicle design has matured, the responsibility to provide crashworthy vehicles has been extended to airplanes, buses, cars, vans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, motorcycles and ...

Two of the best electric pickups on the market duke it out in IIHS safety tests. Tesla Cybertruck outperforms Rivian R1T in IIHS crashworthiness and crash prevention tests. Cybertruck is the only ...

We note that in crashworthiness cases, the jury is required to determine whether the vehicle was defective in design as well as whether an alternative, safer and practicable design existed at the time ...

Written by Przemyslaw Rakoczy, Senior Research Engineer, ENSCO, Inc., and Matthew Dick, P.E., Chief of Strategy & Development, ENSCO, Inc. TTC Operated by ENSCO ...

In my November 2024 column, I began discussing the building block approach for crashworthiness testing of composite structures. This approach features a multistep process for designing composite ...

As described in Chapter 2, two full-scale crash tests, Test Nos. TBLP-1 and TBLP-2, were performed at MwRSF to validate the luminaire pole LS-DYNA computer simulations. This chapter presents the ...

In Phase II, based on the simulation results, the poles that indicated concerning behavior in terms of occupant compartment deformation and maximum occupant impact velocity (OIV) were identified. The ...