IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)

IIHS is a European equivalent of Euro NCAP, which most motorists are familiar. IIHS is a nonprofit organization that, among other things deals with the insurance shocks.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent non-profit educational organization dedicated to barrier tests. Especially the insurance shocks. IIHS is funded through insurance companies, which gain comparable information on the safety of individual vehicles and their subsequent costs of repair. With this information, insurance companies divide cars into classes.

IIHS organization was founded in 1959 to conduct and finance programs to improve safety on the highways. Its scope has gradually widened. Since the 70s, led by IIHS detailed statistics of accidents and from the 90's she even performed crash tests. Unlike the U.S. government agency NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), the methodology the IIHS crash tests similar to the European NCAP - head-on collision takes place at a speed of 64 km / h, the deformable barrier with 40% overlap.

Crash test of the new and old car
In 2009, IIHS celebrated 50 years since its inception and this opportunity to carry out exhaustive historical crash test car (Chevy Bel Air 1959) and a new modern car (Chevrolet Malibu, 2009) that the test results illustrate the difference in passive safety features of modern and old cars.