PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- The test dummy has been used in crash after crash, year after year -- for nearly five decades, to be exact. But as Americans continue to get taller, fatter and older, carmakers say ...

Better engineering has made the front seat much safer in head-on collisions. But the back seat hasn't kept pace. It's a ...

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 ...

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 ...

When vehicles are crash-tested for safety, dummies representing the human form are used as substitutes to determine how much damage one would sustain in the collision. Crash testing is an important ...

(AP) — 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 ...

Digital sensors record thousands of bits of information during every crash test GM has 400 crash dummies worth about $45 million Latest dummies could soon lead to changes in crash-test procedures ...