One of the nation's most closely watched auto safety ratings could soon get even tougher. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which conducts rigorous car tests and issues ratings that ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, American car companies will soon be required to test vehicle safety using dummies that are representative of women. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on ...

When the Trump administration announced it was giving the green light to the design for a female crash test dummy, it was welcome news to the advocates who have long fought for better female ...

For decades, car safety tests have predominantly relied on a crash-test dummy modeled after the average 1970s American man.