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iihs.org Vehicle Research Center 988 Dairy Road Ruckersville, VA 22968 USA T +1 (434) 985-4600 vrc@iihs.org The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, founded in 1959, is an independent, nonprofit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — from crashes on the nation’s highways. The work of IIHS is wholly supported by U.S. insurers. The Institute’s Vehicle Research Center was dedicated in 1992, and crash research conducted there eventually led to IIHS front crashworthiness ratings in 1995. At the same time, IIHS was rating vehicle head restraint geometry to encourage designs better able to mitigate whiplash injuries. IIHS added side crashworthiness ratings in 2004 and also began basing its whiplash mitigation ratings on results of simulated rear crashes (sled tests). In 2009, IIHS began rating roof strength to promote better rollover crashworthiness. TOP SAFETY PICK, IIHS’s highest safety accolade, was initiated in 2006 to help consumers easily identify those vehicle designs that had achieved the highest level of crashworthiness as indicated by results of IIHS tests. It has also been used to promote other life-saving safety features such as electronic stability control (ESC). TOP SAFETY PICK continues to evolve, ever raising the bar for safety in the U.S. CURRENT programs IIHS maintains front, side, roof, and whiplash mitigation ratings for about 190 current model vehicle designs that represent about 92 percent of the new passenger vehicle fleet in the United States. Research using crash records indicates that occupants of vehicles with good ratings in IIHS tests have reduced risk of injury and death: • In 2-vehicle frontal crashes, the driver fatality risk in vehicles with good IIHS front ratings is 46 percent lower than in those rated poor. • Among vehicles with standard side airbags for the head and torso, those with good IIHS side crash ratings have a driver fatality risk that is 70 percent less than that of those rated poor. • Research that led to the initiation of IIHS roof strength tests indicates that the risk of serious injury or death is reduced by 34 percent in rollover crashes among good-rated vehicles compared with poor ones. • The risk of neck injury in rear crashes is 15 percent lower for drivers in seats with good ratings than for those in seats rated poor. For injuries lasting 3 months or more, the difference is 35 percent. In addition to front, side, roof, and rear safety crash ratings, IIHS rates vehicle bumpers for their ability to prevent expensive damage in low-speed crashes. Since 2008, IIHS has rated belt-fitting booster seats for their ability to correctly position safety belts on children in a variety of vehicles. fUTURE plans IIHS researchers are developing a new frontal crash test to evaluate a vehicle’s ability to protect occupants in frontal crashes with smaller overlap than the current IIHS frontal test. IIHS researchers are monitoring real-world performance of driver assistance and crash avoidance technologies with the intention of promoting those that are shown to be effective at helping drivers avoid crashes. Recent IIHS research suggests the possible need for comparison testing of heavy truck underride guards.
www.nasva.go.jp 6-1-25 Koji-machi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-0083 JAPAN JARI test facility Inset: NASVA headquarters T +81-3-5276-4477 admin@nasva.go.jp The Japan New Car Assessment Program (JNCAP) has been evaluating the safety of vehicles since 1995. The program aims to encourage the development and widespread use of safer vehicles by providing safety information to consumers. It is carried out by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA). Testing is conducted at the Japan Automobile Research Institute. JNCAP releases overall ratings of crash safety performance of more than 100 models, covering more than 80 percent of new vehicles sold on the Japanese market. Child seat safety tests — a frontal collision test and a usability test —have been part of the program since 2001. Since 2007, NASVA has been awarding the JNCAP Grand Prix to the vehicle model that earns the best ratings among all vehicle models that were evaluated for the first time in a given year. CURRENT CRASHWORTHINESS PROGRAMS JNCAP began with full-width frontal tests and braking performance tests in 1995. A side-impact test was added in 1999, followed by a frontal offset test the following year. Overall crash performance ratings have been released since 2000, based on the three crash tests. The following tests and evaluations are also conducted: • neck injury (whiplash) mitigation test for rear-end collision performance (since 2009) • rear seat belt usability evaluation (since 2009) • passenger seat belt reminder evaluation • evaluation of rear-seat passenger protection as part of the frontal offset test (since 2009) A 2007 analysis of crash data showed a correlation between a vehicle’s JNCAP rating and the rate of fatality and seriously injury. Based on this research, it is estimated that more than 5,000 fatalities and more than 130,000 serious injuries were prevented from 1995 to 2007 as a result of JNCAP’s work. FUTURE PLANS In 2011, JNCAP intends to begin testing vehicles for pedestrian leg protection and for protection against electrical shock after a collision. JNCAP also plans to start a new overall rating for safety performance that will combine not only the results of all the crash tests, but also head and leg pedestrian protection and the seat belt reminder evaluation. In addition, JNCAP is studying evaluation methods for crash avoidance technologies. • pedestrian head protection performance test (since 2003) • side curtain airbag evaluation (conducted along with the side collision test since 2008)
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