New Car Assessment Program
In 1978 the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) in the United States was initiated with the primary purpose of providing consumers with a measure of the relative safety potential of vehicles in frontal crashes. NCAP now supplies consumers with important comprehensive information, including frontal- and side- crash test results, to aid them in their vehicle purchase decisions. The ultimate goal of NCAP is to improve occupant safety by providing market incentives for vehicle manufacturers to voluntarily design their vehicles to better protect occupants in a crash and be less susceptible to rollover, rather than by regulatory directives.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety '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.

Australian NCAP
The Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) gives consumers consistent information on the occupant protection level of vehicles in serious front and side crashes. The program is supported by Australian and New Zealand automobile clubs, the State government road and transport authorities in Queensland, NSW, Westerm Australia & South Australia, the New Zealand Government and the Australian Federal Government.

Euro NCAP
Euro NCAP provides motoring consumers with a realistic and independent assessment of the safety performance of some of the most popular cars sold in Europe.

Established in 1997 and now backed by five European Governments, the European Commission and motoring and consumer organizations in every EU country, Euro NCAP has rapidly become a catalyst for encouraging significant safety improvements to new car design.