To really put an automobile through its paces, you have to cover a lot of ground. Good thing the Consumer Reports Auto Test Center sprawls across 327 acres in rural Connecticut, where we push the cars ...

Consumer Reports will soon release this year's top picks in cars, trucks, minivans and SUVs. To find out how the top picks are chosen, 5 on Your Side's Monica Laliberte traveled to the Consumer ...

On a stretch of painstakingly maintained asphalt in rural Connecticut, Ryan Pszczolkowski lined up a Rivian electric pickup truck at the start of a long straightaway. After a beat, he floored it. The ...

Along stretches of pavement in rural Connecticut, the complex features now making their way into vehicles are put to the test. "It's really exploded in terms of features that are making drivers safer, ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration collects crash data about autonomous vehicles, but only issues voluntary guidelines about expectations for those vehicles. Those guidelines softened ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has toughened up the tests required to earn one of its coveted Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ awards. The institute has spent the past 65 years ...

About 20,000 components to every single BMW on the road today get put to the extreme test well beyond real-world expectations. Then again, sometimes a not-your-average-driver does subject their BMW to ...

Software testing is vital for the automotive sector, especially as fitted advanced technology in vehicles proliferates. In a recent study carried out by Harvard Review on developers, results showed ...

Many companies and individuals have embraced generative artificial intelligence, which can communicate like humans and learn from its mistakes. TrueCar Inc. may decline to join their ranks. The ...

A car battery is a crucial component that plays a vital role in the operation of a vehicle. Its primary function is to provide electrical energy to start the engine and power various electrical ...

Kirsty Andrew, vice president of UK operations at automotive testing and proving ground specialist, UTAC, has told Just Auto that AI will be a gamechanger in the world of automotive product testing.