The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) welcome the new regulation from the National Highway Traffic Administration that requires automatic emergency braking (AEB) on all new passenger vehicles by September 2029. The final rule is a step forward for safety, though the long runway provided for compliance is unnecessary, IIHS-HLDI President David Harkey said. “We […]
IIHS Calls for Crash Avoidance Features on Light Vans
Light vans involved in over 900,000 police reported crashes each year. Equipping the light vans that fulfill America’s online orders with four safety features could prevent or mitigate close to 4 out of 10 fatal crashes involving such vehicles, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows. Using federal crash data […]
IIHS Reports Crash Avoidance Systems Struggle in New Test
Few small SUVs excel in new front crash prevention test. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is updating its vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention test to address crashes that occur at higher speeds and those in which the struck vehicle is a motorcycle or large truck. Only one of the first 10 small SUVs evaluated in […]
IIHS Says First Partial Driving Automation Ratings Show Vehicle Manufacturers Have Work to Do
Only Lexus LS Teammate system earned acceptable rating out of fourteen systems tested. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is introducing a new ratings program to encourage automakers to incorporate more robust safeguards into their partial driving automation systems. Out of the first 14 systems tested, only one earns an acceptable rating. Two are rated […]
IIHS Calls on NHTSA to Move Quickly to Require Impaired Driving Prevention
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is urging federal regulators to pick up the pace in issuing a requirement for impaired driving prevention technology on new passenger vehicles. In 2021, Congress instructed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue a regulation requiring the technology. The law calls on NHTSA to issue the final […]
American Family’s Westrate Elected Chair of IIHS Board of Directors
Bill Westrate, chair and chief executive officer of American Family Insurance, has been elected chair of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Board of Directors for 2024. Westrate takes over from Scott Wesley Ziegler, who is retiring from Progressive Insurance, where he was general manager of personal lines. “IIHS exemplifies the collective power and impact […]
IIHS Reports Vehicle Manufacturers Fulfilled Autonomous Braking Pledge
All 20 participating automakers have fulfilled a voluntary pledge to equip nearly all the light vehicles they produce for the U.S. market with automatic emergency braking. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), five new manufacturers installed automatic emergency braking (AEB) on more than 95 percent of the light vehicles they produced between […]
IIHS and Road to Zero Coalition Call for In-Vehicle Alerts and Speed Limiters to Curb Aggressive Driving
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and other members of the Road to Zero Coalition are urging automakers, regulators and fleet operators to promote intelligent speed assistance (ISA) and speed limiters to help curb an epidemic of speeding that has contributed to a spike in traffic deaths since 2020. “Speeding causes more than a […]
AirPro’s Auggie Calibrations Meet IIHS and NHTSA Standards
AirPro Diagnostics announced its Auggie mobile static recalibration device has been independently tested and has met Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) vehicle requirements, proving a complete and safe recalibration. FT Techno of America (FTTA), an independent vehicle evaluation company, recently performed the following industry recognized ADAS tests […]
NHTSA Proposes Automatic Emergency Braking Requirements for New Vehicles
Rule would replace the 2016 voluntary agreement between manufacturers, NHTSA and IIHS that led 14 manufacturers to install braking system in 95% of their vehicles by last September. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) yesterday announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require automatic emergency braking and pedestrian AEB […]
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