A group of bipartisan women senators is pushing for more diversity in crash test dummies, hoping it will help solve the problem. "Whether driving or as passengers, we wanna make sure that women are ...

Ford digital child crash test dummy – Click above for high-res image gallery Ford has started working on a digital child body model to better understand the effects of car crashes on youngsters.

“It is the best crash test dummy in the world,” Bentley said of these digital human models. “We can look at very small [movement] subcomponents: bending, flexing, straining.

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 THOR-5F, a more advanced female crash test dummy, is being developed. Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ...

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 ...

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 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.