New crash tests for one of America's most widely used guardrails proved contentious Thursday even before the test vehicle's engine revved. After days of loud bickering between guardrail maker Trinity ...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln crashed a Rivian R1T into a steel guardrail at 60 mph to test how heavier electric vehicles perform against safety barriers designed for lighter gasoline models. The ...

In the 1990s, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility looked into the then-50-year-old highway guardrail system and found it to be incapable of handling the increasing number of SUVs and pickups at the ...

Danger can be measured in pounds on the road. And the electric vehicles have plenty of those. In a test meant to prove the danger that large EVs pose to traffic, a Rivian R1T was catapulted into a ...