The Hybrid III (M) is the most commonly used crash test dummy and dates back to 1986. It represents a 50th percentile adult male and is 5-feet 9-inches (1.75 m) tall and weighs 171 lbs (78 kg).

Since the 1970s, crash test dummies have been used to test for car safety. And here's another fact. Those dummies are modeled on men, only men - average male build, average male weight.

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.

Sierra Sam and Sierra Susie have seen some things. For the past 70 years, their crash test dummy family has been subjected to carefully calculated abuse in the hopes of making cars safer for humans.

“This is 2023, and we still don’t have a [bio-realistic] crash test dummy for females in cars,” said former Rep. Susan Molinari (R-N.Y.), who co-chairs VERITY Now, a group advocating for ...

NHTSA currently uses the 5th percentile adult female dummy in crash testing -- the dummy is 4 '11" and weighs 108 pounds, a smaller version of the original design based on the male body.

The crash test dummy currently used in NHTSA five-star testing is called the Hybrid III, which was developed in 1978 and modeled after a 5-foot-9, 171-pound man (the average size in the 1970s but ...

Crash test dummies take the hits at IIHS so, hopefully, you don't have to. Anchor Erin Miller gets an in-depth look at the research being done at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ...

The agency responded to the GAO's 2023 report within 180 days, saying NHTSA was developing a plan to incorporate the THOR-5F female dummy into regulations that would be released by December 30, 2023.

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 ...