To avoid pain associated with whiplash injury, safety considerations in cars could go beyond seat belts and airbags to examine the position of the driver and passenger head restraints, according to ...

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, more than 60 percent of passenger vehicles do a bad job of preventing neck and head injuries when a vehicle is rear ended. The seat/head ...

Most drivers treat the padded piece behind their head as an afterthought, a comfort feature that happens to be there if they feel like leaning back. Seat engineers see something very different: a ...

People with long hair often cite the discomfort caused by head restraints when wearing a ponytail or hair clip, but removing or flipping around a head restraint may cause serious, otherwise easily ...

The risk of a fatal traffic crash worries many motorists, but statistics show that an accident is more likely to result in a garden-variety whiplash--not fatal, but apt to cause pain for days, even ...

A reactive head restraint and car seat system designed to reduce whiplash in rear-end vehicle collisions has been unveiled by British engineers. The unique concept has been brought to life using ...

What Is It: Auto makers are coming out with head-restraint systems designed to make being rear-ended less of a pain in the neck. When a car is hit from behind with enough force, occupants' bodies move ...

If youve followed racing for the past two years, then you know what a head-and-neck restraint system is. You know why it exists and what it does to help prevent injuries to the brain. A head-and-neck ...

BMW entered the sport utility vehicle arena in 1999 with the first generation of the X5. The fourth came out 20 years later. Facelifted for the 2024 model year, the G05 is recalled stateside over an ...

Improved head restraints have boosted the 2018 BMW X2’s safety ratings, but only for models built starting in August 2018. Safety-conscious shoppers can typically find the month a vehicle was built by ...

Head restraints in several passenger vehicles provided marginal or poor protection against neck injuries and whiplash, the insurance industry reported Thursday in new crash test results. Only 22 of 75 ...