Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ensure greater safety of women in the U.S. Women are on average more likely to ...

Despite it being known for a long time that designing crash tests purely around male physiology, whatever the size, is a bad ...

Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother sustain serious injuries while her ...

(AP) — Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother sustain serious injuries ...

Crash test dummies are supposed to help engineers understand how car crashes affect the human body. But there may be a troubling design flaw. You might think that by the looks of a crash test dummy it ...

Some of Magna’s crash test dummies are, in fact, worth over a million bucks. And if you want to be fancy, you can call them Anthropomorphic Test Devices (but we won’t). Dummy or ATD, there’s a lot ...

Obese people are 78 percent more likely to die in a car crash. — -- Crash-test dummies are undergoing a makeover to reflect the thicker waistlines and larger rear ends of Americans. “Studies show ...