Crash-test dummies have long been designed around male bodies, putting women at higher injury risk. New female models ...

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 ...

Crash dummies aren’t dumb; they’re packed with complicated sensors, gathering data about collisions. There’s a push to require automakers to test with dummies modeled on female bodies, not just male ...

The U.S. government announced major design changes it wants to implement to make the female version of the vehicle crash test dummy more lifelike, potentially replacing a model used for decades that ...