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, ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, US auto manufacturers will be mandated to test vehicle safety with the help of female crash-test dummies, a move aimed at closing the long-standing gap in injury rates between men ...

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 ...

Women make up more than half of U.S. drivers, but are 73% more likely to suffer serious injuries in a crash than men, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They are 17% more ...

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 ...

Maine's Maria Weston Kuhn had one big question about the head-on car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery while vacationing in Ireland in 2019: Why were she and her mother seriously hurt, ...

What happens when a couple of crash test dummies realize exactly what they were built for just seconds before impact? That’s ...