Forty-seven out of 54 booster seats introduced last year earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) highest rating of “best bet.” The best bet rating means a booster provides good seat belt fit for typical 4- to 8-year-olds in almost any car, minivan, or SUV. Boosters that ...

A November 2022 “Safety on the Roads” column was about Intelligent Speed Assistance and described its potential to save lives by warning drivers when they exceed the speed limit, or even controlling the speed in some cases. Now the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and other ...

Last week’s column presented 20 questions on vehicle and traffic law (VTL) and traffic safety. Hopefully you took the test and kept your answers handy. This column repeats the questions and includes the answers. See how you did. - True or False - 1. If your vehicle has daytime running ...

An annual winter feature of the weekly “Did You Know” articles is a 20-question quiz on vehicle and traffic law (VTL) and traffic control devices (TCDs). The first 10 questions are true/false and questions; 11-20 are multiple choice. If you follow the weekly Safety on the Roads columns, you ...

All 20 participating automakers have fulfilled a voluntary pledge to equip nearly all the light vehicles they produce for the U.S. market with automatic emergency braking (AEB). Five new manufacturers installed AEB on more than 95% of the light vehicles they produced between Sept. 1, 2022, and ...

An amendment to a bill regarding the minimum age for operation of an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) was approved in October 2023, according to a memo from the New York state Assembly. The bill amends Section 2409(2) of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law (VTL) to change the age of completing ...