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We’ve tested hundreds of strollers in a dedicated lab at our headquarters.
Baby & Toddler Lab

We’ve tested hundreds of strollers in a dedicated lab at our headquarters.

CR’s experts run rigorous safety assessments, evaluate ease of use, and steer strollers on a test course to see how they maneuver.

Inside the Labs

CR’s experts put strollers through their paces.

Join Joan Muratore, who oversees stroller testing at Consumer Reports, for a tour of the lab and a demonstration of some of the tests that are performed there.

Did you know?

CR staff shoppers buy every product we use as a test sample from retail stores, helping maintain our objectivity and independence.

Meet the Strollers Team

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Min Kim Bryant

Senior Market Analyst

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Joan Muratore

Test Program Leader

Stroller Testing

Our evaluations focus on ease of use, maneuverability, and safety.

A solid stroller should be intuitive to use, a breeze to navigate through different environments, and secure enough to keep your child safe, even on a bumpy ride.

Ease of Use

Ease of Use

Our testers fasten and adjust the safety harness, fold and unfold the stroller, lift and carry the stroller, adjust the backrest, engage the wheel brakes, and attach and detach car seats if the stroller is compatible with them.
Maneuverability

Maneuverability

Using an infant dummy or a weighted bag that simulates a toddler passenger, our testers push strollers around a course we designed. We assess how they strollers maneuver around S-turns through cones, through narrow sections, uphill, downhill, up and down curbs, and across terrain that simulates grass and dirt trails with tree roots and other debris.
A black jogging stroller with graphics depicting an Overall Score of 82 positioned within the range of stroller ratings.
Models are assigned an Overall Score and ranked in relation to how they perform within a group.

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Safety

Safety

Our safety assessments test to the requirements of the federal safety standard, 16 CFR 1227, which incorporates the ASTM F833 stroller safety standard. With the infant dummy or weighted passenger substitute, we rotate the stroller to make sure a stroller’s harness will keep a child in place, conduct an impact test of the stroller’s structural integrity in the event of an accident, and more. CR has also designed its own unique and rigorous stability and braking test to make sure a stroller’s brakes can keep it in place even under pressure.