The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is considering beefing up its side-impact crash test, one of eight evaluations that inform the agency’s influential safety awards, with a revamped test ...

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been testing cars’ ability to withstand side impacts since 2003, which has led to the introduction of safer cars throughout the years. Now that ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Horizon3.ai today announced the launch of its first-to-market Phishing Impact testing capability within NodeZero. This new capability marks a significant advancement in penetration ...

The revised IIHS side impact test barrier now weighs 4200 pounds, which is a 900 pound increase over the older 3300-pound test barrier. This new side impact barrier is supposed to more accurately ...

The Izod impact test fixes one end of a notched specimen in a cantilever position by means of a vice. A striker on the arm of a pendulum or similar energy carrier then strikes the specimen. The energy ...

The impact response of composite materials was of only minor interest prior to the introduction of carbon fiber in the mid-1960s. Before that time, the composites in use were primarily reinforced with ...

Does your company test every feature you release into production? How about 50%? From our candid conversations with our enterprise customers, we found that many companies do little to no functional ...

Last year the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) began running tougher new side impact crash testing designed to replicate real-world situations involving impacts from SUVs. The results are ...

The IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) has sent seven 2022 model year midsize vehicles through its latest crash test procedure, and only one of them was good at it. The Subaru Outback ...