What is Insurance Institute for Highway Safety?
[[File:CEF1802-04.jpg|thumb|Frontal crash test of a 2019 [[Subaru Ascent]].]] '''Insurance Institute for Highway Safety''' (IIHS) is a non-profit organization [[wikt:fund|fund]]ed by at least 75 [[Insurance|insurance companies]].<ref>''Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention and Treatment'', ed. Committee on Injury Prevention and Control, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999), p. 120</ref> IIHS was started in 1959 with their [[headquarters]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]]. Their [[task|goal]] is to reduce deaths, injuries and property loss from [[car|automobile]] [[Wikt:crash|crash]]es on [[US]] [[highway]]s.<ref name=IIHS>{{cite web |url=http://www.iihs.org/iihs/about-us/milestones |title=About the Institutes |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data Institute |accessdate=19 May 2015 |archive-date=16 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516151340/http://www.iihs.org/iihs/about-us/milestones |url-status=dead }}</ref> It [[research]]es and rates popular [[car|passenger vehicles]]. IIHS also rates consumer products such as [[child safety seat]]. They also research road [[design]] and traffic [[wikt:regulation|regulation]]s. It carries out [[research]] and produces ratings for popular passenger vehicles as well as for certain [[consumer]] [[Product (business)|products]] such as [[child safety seat]]s. It also conducts research on road design and traffic regulations, and has been involved in promoting policy decisions. According to their own [[wikt:bylaw|bylaw]]s IIHS does not [[wikt:lobby|lobby]] the [[United States Congress]] and other lawmaking bodies to change [[law]]s. They [[educate]] lawmakers and by [[wikt:invitation|invitation]].<ref>'IIHS Target: Motorcycles', ''The American Motorcyclist'', Vol. 42, No. 2 (February 1988), pp. 20–21</ref> == History == The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was [[wikt:establish|establish]]ed by insurance companies in 1959 to [[wikt:advise|advise]] other organ