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What is the purpose of IIHS?
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent, nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from motor vehicle crashes through research and evaluation and through education of consumers, policymakers and safety professionals.
Is the IIHS credible?
An insurance-industry-backed nonprofit organization, the IIHS conducts its own series of six crash tests on over 100 new vehicles each year. Like NHTSA, it generally chooses vehicles that sell in high numbers and are new or significantly updated. The IIHS’s highest rating is Top Safety Pick+.
What is the IIHS HLDI?
The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) shares and supports this mission through scientific studies of insurance data representing the human and economic losses resulting from the ownership and operation of different types of vehicles and by publishing insurance loss results by vehicle make and model.
Who runs IIHS?
David Harkey is president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute. Before taking the helm at IIHS-HLDI in 2018, Dr. Harkey led the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center for 11 years.
What are the smaller dummies at IIHS called?
In both tests, two SID-IIs dummies representing small (5th percentile) women or 12-year-old children are positioned in the driver seat and the rear seat behind the driver. IIHS was the first in the United States to use this smaller dummy in a test for consumer information.
Is the IIHS a government agency?
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is a U.S. nonprofit organization funded by auto insurance companies, established in 1959 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
What is the difference between IIHS and Nhtsa?
The NHTSA calculates the potential rollover risk associated with a vehicle and performs a dynamic test, while the IIHS actually crushes a vehicle’s roof to determine how much force it can resist in event that a rollover occurs.
Is IIHS a government agency?
How is IIHS funded?
What do high strength side door guard beams do?
The beams provide extra protection during instances when smaller cars may be struck by a larger SUV.
What is crash test in car?
A crash test is a form of destructive testing usually performed in order to ensure safe design standards in crashworthiness and crash compatibility for various modes of transportation (see automobile safety) or related systems and components.
What does NHTSA stand for?
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is responsible for keeping people safe on America’s roadways. Through enforcing vehicle performance standards and partnerships with state and local governments, NHTSA reduces deaths, injuries and economic losses from motor vehicle crashes.