Safety is a paramount concern for many shoppers in choosing their next vehicle, based on our car-buying surveys. Beyond crash test results and advanced safety systems, there is a vital element that ...

From the June 2022 issue of Car and Driver. Car and Driver started testing vehicles' acceleration way back in the 1950s, but it took us a decade to stop. That is, to measure the distance needed to ...

As automakers chase greater fuel-economy gains for their hybrid models, some may be sacrificing braking distance in favor of squeezing out a few extra miles per gallon, Consumer Reports has found.

Hello Victoria, braking distance is how far a vehicle travels from when its driver applies the brakes to the point where it stops completely. Braking distance is an important safety concern as it ...

Tesla pushed out a software update to Model 3s that dramatically improved the car's braking performance in certain conditions. The update came days after Consumer Reports announced that it could not ...

Speed has been cited in most road crashes. Driving is unpredictable and if something unexpected happens on the road ahead, such as a child running into the road, it is a driver’s speed that will ...

Discussions around the latest high-performance car, be it of the electric, pony, sports, super, or hyper variety, tend to focus on the 0 to 60 mph time. Lately, this all-important metric has seen ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a proposal for more stringent stopping distance requirements for heavy trucks. The agency intends to amend the air brake ...