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American Institute for Public Safety
AIPS markets the RoadrageousT Aggressive Driver/Driver Behavior Modification Course to corporations and
government agencies. RoadrageousT has been statistically documented by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to reduce collisions 64-74%.
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Transportation Research Board (TRB) Occupant Protection Committee
The Occupant Protection Committee monitors, synthesizes, encourages, and disseminates research activities related to the science of occupant protection, in all modes of transportation and around the world, to promote an evolving research agenda that addresses current and future occupant protection priorities. Occupant protection priorities include restraint system performance and efficiency to optimize protection, including biomechanical issues; economic impact to society; and behavioral measures to increase restraint use such as enforcement and education.
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Center for Auto Safety
Consumers Union and Ralph Nader founded the Center for Auto Safety (CAS) in 1970 to provide consumers a voice for auto safety and quality in Washington and to help lemon owners fight back across the country. CAS has a small budget but a big impact on the auto industry. With less than half what General Motors spends on a single Super Bowl commercial, CAS has taken on the auto giants and won for consumers.
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Institute for Highway Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is a U.S. non-profit organization funded by auto insurers. It works to reduce the number of motor vehicle crashes, and the rate of injuries and amount of property damage in the crashes that still occur. It carries out research and produces ratings for popular passenger vehicles as well as for certain consumer products such as child car booster seats.
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Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is an alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies and agents working together to make America's roads safer.
Visit Their Site → Automotive Safety Research Institute
The Automotive Safety Research Institute (ASRI) is an independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences organization specializing in automobile crashworthiness research. The Institute uses multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving including computational models, component testing, and full-scale vehicle crash tests. The Institute performs research to support the safety needs of consumers, industry, and government.
Visit Their Site →National Crash Analysis Center
• The missions of the NCAC include:
o improving safety by expanding researchers' knowledge about crashes,
o developing and sharing the detailed vehicle and hardware models, and
o leading efforts to apply computer simulation tools to enable researchers to study the complex interactions associated with crashes
Visit Their Site →Bolton Automotive and Aerospace Research Group
BAARG is a leading research centre of excellence in the field of Structural Crashworthiness, Impact Biomechanics, Safety and Accident Investigation. BAARG's mission is to discover new knowledge through research and disseminate it so that it can be employed by practitioners in design for structures that save lives in crashes.
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NHTSA - National Highway Safety Administration
As part of its activities, NHTSA is charged with writing and enforcing safety, theft-resistance, and fuel economy standards for motor vehicles. NHTSA also licenses vehicle manufacturers and importers, allows or blocks the import of vehicles and safety-regulated vehicle parts, administers the VIN system, develops the anthropomorphic dummies used in safety testing, as well as the test protocols themselves, and provides vehicle insurance cost information.
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NHTSA - Star Ratings
SaferCar is the nations Premier source of vehivcle safety information from the government, serving the public interest.
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