Vehicle Research Center Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
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RCAR Member since 1997
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| Owner: |
None; sponsored by U.S. property/casualty insurers |
| Address: |
Location
VRC
988 Dairy Road
Ruckersville, VA 22968
USA
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| Fax: |
Int +1 434 985 2202 |
| Telephone: |
Int +1 434 985 4600 |
| Email: |
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| Web Address: |
www.iihs.org |
| Twitter: |
http://twitter.com/IIHS_autosafety?
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| YouTube: |
http://www.youtube.com/iihs |
| Equipment & Main Activities: |
- Crash tests at up to 50 mph; car-to-car head-on and car-to-car side impacts that simulate real-world intersection crashes
- Outdoor track and covered track for ADAS/headlight evaluation testing
- Dummy calibration laboratory to prepare crash test dummies
- Work bays for vehicle preparation
- Cameras/lighting to film crash tests in slow-motion
- Photography studio to document research results
- Machine shop to create special equipment for vehicle testing
- Display hall for showing/explaining cars from recent tests and examples of modern vehicle safety technologies
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| Strategic Direction: |
- Conducts a range of vehicle testing to encourage automakers to sell safer vehicles. Based on extensive review of crash records, the testing represents multiple crash modes to improve crashworthiness and typical pre-crash scenarios which driver assistance systems need address.
- Part of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which conducts a full range of highway safety research covering drivers and the roadway environment as well as motor vehicles.
- Affiliated organisation, the Highway Loss Data Institute, publishes information on insurance losses by passenger vehicle make and model.
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