Vehicle safety experts call the design 'promising' but note that it is only one tool to improve vehicle safety for drivers and passengers.

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

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Nov. 20 unveiled an advanced female crash test dummy that manufacturers can soon start producing for carmakers to test in their vehicles.

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 ...

After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast.

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 ...

Some of Magna’s crash test dummies are, in fact, worth over a million bucks. And if you want to be fancy, you can call them Anthropomorphic Test Devices (but we won’t). Dummy or ATD, there’s a lot ...