A 2022 Rivian R1T is used for crash test research by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Development Center and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility on Oct. 12, 2023, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on 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 ...

Conventional guardrail systems are constructed on the jobsite of lumber and are time-consuming to build and erect, require constant maintenance and are commonly discarded as waste at the conclusion of ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, ...

When a 7,000-pound electric pickup truck tore through a guardrail at highway speed during a crash test, it confirmed what many safety experts fear: The protective systems lining America’s roads are ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Under an overcast sky last fall, engineers with a University of Nebraska road safety facility watched as an electric-powered pickup truck hurtled toward a guardrail installed on ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — “You're seeing the car make contact with the rail. The rail lifts up and deforms backward and it does eventually rupture,” James Kovar, an assistant research scientist at the Texas A&M ...

ManTech International Corp. has received a two-year Army task order worth $22.6 million for software engineering services. Under its Strategic Services Sourcing prime contract, ManTech will provide ...

Read full article: Nearing 90-degrees Sunday. Here is when you can expect cool and windy weather to return. LINCOLN, Neb. – Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can ...