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 ...

When a animal is 1,000 pounds and stands taller than your roof, studying impacts with vehicles can mean the difference ...

The dummy strapped into a car at a test facility has a name and a very specific set of ancestors. Before anyone built one, ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Experts say the diversity of drivers has expanded at a faster clip than the tools the industry relies on to measure their ...

For decades, car safety tests were built around the body of an average man from the 1970s. Now, federal officials are taking a step to better protect women behind the wheel. The U.S. Transportation ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has approved the specifications of THOR-5F, a female crash test dummy developed by Humanetics. AP Photo / Paul Sancya When a woman gets behind the ...

For an industry that prides itself on stringent testing and meticulous design, vast numbers of drivers are being let down by ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an advanced female crash test dummy that manufacturers can soon start producing for carmakers to test in their vehicles. The female crash test dummy, ...

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 ...

The NHTSA is set to get an advanced dummy to make crash testing more accurate. Built to represent 95 percent of the U.S. female population, THOR-5F will help crash testers more accurately model ...