While regulators have been testing crash impacts for decades, there’s a dearth of data on women, who face a higher risk of ...

RUCKERSVILLE, Va. — Before you buy a vehicle, there's an incredible amount of time, research, and testing that goes into creating it. Part of that includes crash testing to see how safe you'll be ...

On shelves at a Humanetics facility in Huron, Ohio, skulls stare from their eyeless sockets, shiny and silver. Around a corner, a rack is filled with squishy, peach-toned arms, legs, torsos and butts.

Driving is one of the most dangerous activities in our society, even more so than flying in an airplane or riding on a train. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, “[m]otor ...

You can learn a lot from a dummy, especially if it’s a better representation of the average woman’s body. For decades, crash test dummies were based on the average male body size, leaving the average ...

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 ...

View post: Chrysler Once Sold a K-Car in Japan—and It May Be Extinct Today In the early 1970s, the gods of crash test dummies at GM created the Hybrid I, designed to represent the average male in ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation introduced a new female crash dummy as it seeks to step up safety for women, who face a higher injury risk in car crashes than men. The U.S. government has used a ...