Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Do you see the deer? A Honda Accord four-door with halogen lights (left) was found to have "acceptable" lights, while the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, also with halogen, was given a "poor" rating, based in part on how well each car lit objects on a straight sec

National
Economy

A Dim View: Only 1 Car Out Of 31 Is Deemed To Have 'Good' Headlights

2:44pm March 30, 2016

by Bill Chappell

A car's cost — and even promises of seeing around curves — have little to do with the ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's study of 31 cars and 82 different headlight systems.

The 2015 Subaru Outback was one of the carmaker's seven models that won the highest safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

National
Economy

Number Of Cars Earning Top Safety Awards Nearly Doubles

8:32am December 24, 2014

by Bill Chappell

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the number of vehicles winning its two safety awards jumped from 39 to 71 for the 2015 model year.