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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit research and communications organization funded by auto insurers. For over 30 years the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been a leader in finding out what works and doesn't work to prevent motor vehicle crashes in the first place and reduce injuries in the crashes that still occur. The Institute's research focuses on countermeasures aimed at all three factors in motor vehicle crashes (human, vehicular, and environmental) and on interventions that can occur before, during, and after crashes to reduce losses. In 1992 the Vehicle Research Center (VRC) was opened. This center, which includes a state-of-the-art crash test facility, is the focus of most of the Institute's vehicle-related research. The Institute's affiliate organization, the Highway Loss Data Institute, gathers, processes, and publishes data on the ways in which insurance losses vary among different kinds of vehicles.
A brief look at the field of highway safety
Before the 1960s, highway safety advocates focused nearly all their efforts on preventing crashes, primarily by trying to change driver behavior. Engineering attracted some attention, but it was engineering to prevent crashes. Reducing the consequences of crashes didn't get much notice.
Because of the focus on crash prevention, many lifesaving vehicle designs were overlooked. For example, a few physicians advocated safety belts in the 1930s, but U.S. automakers didn't begin installing lap belts as standard equipment until the 1960s — and then in response to state mandates. Shoulder belts didn't become standard until the 1968 model year when they were mandated by federal law.
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