Technical protocols for vehicle testing and rating
All files 
unless otherwise noted
| Frontal offset testing | |
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| Test protocol | |
| Rating protocols | Guidelines for rating restraints and dummy kinematics August 2007 Guidelines for rating structural performance April 2002 |
| Rating calculator | Crashworthiness evaluation frontal offset overall rating calculator Weighting principles for frontal offset vehicle ratings April 2006 |
| Side impact testing | |
| Test protocol | Side impact crash test protocol (version V) May 2008 |
| Rating protocols | Side impact test program rating guidelines April 2006 (updated) Guidelines for rating injury measures (version II) April 2008 (updated) |
| Rating calculator | Crashworthiness evaluation side impact overall rating calculator (version II) Weighting principles for side impact vehicle ratings August 2006 |
| Miscellaneous | Moving deformable barrier specification October 2007 Side impact outrigger assembly Recommended procedures for evaluating occupant injury risk from deploying side airbags July 2003 Updated SID-IIs iliac wing January 2007 |
| Rear impact and head restraints | |
| NEW | A procedure for evaluating motor vehicle head restraints (issue 3) March 2008 RCAR standard — procedure followed by IIHS since model year 2001 |
| NEW | RCAR-IIWPG seat/head restraint evaluation protocol (version 3) March 2008 |
| Bumper testing | |
Bumper test protocol (version VI) April 2007 Summary of new IIHS low-speed crash test program May 2006 Construction and assembly drawings for IIHS/RCAR bumper barrier (2.7 MB file) January 2008 |
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| Dummy positioning | |
Dummy seating procedure for rear outboard positions (version I) August 2005 Guidelines for using the UMTRI ATD positioning procedure for ATD and seat positioning (version V) December 2004 ATD positioning template |
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