Humanetics’ THOR dummies received high marks in the vehicle safety agency’s early tests. Using cadavers from actual crashes to compare the results, NHTSA found they outperformed the existing Hybrid in ...

We need better crash test dummies, says Government Accountability Office Current dummies don't give good data on women's risk of injuries, for example.

Congress says the Biden administration has been slow to adopt new, more realistic female crash test dummies. One issue: money.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Swedish engineer Astrid Linder, who lead the project to create the prototype for the first crash test dummy modeled after the average woman's body.

Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ensure safety of women.

Humanetics makes a variety of anthropomorphic test devices, or ATD — commonly known as a crash test dummy — to measure human injury potential in vehicle crashes.

NASCAR’s Next Gen car features a lot of new tech. The testing of that car also featured new ways of testing that included crash testing with not only crash test dummies, but AI and robotics as well.

Although women face the threat of more injury risks in vehicle crashes, the crash test dummies used in U.S. safety tests are designed almost entirely around the body of a man. Maria Weston Kuhn, a ...

Women face more injury risks in car crashes. So why are test dummies modeled after men? Maria Weston Kuhn, a survivor of a near-fatal accident, created a nonprofit to help change crash test dummies.