The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses dummies that are 4-foot-11 and weigh 97 to 108 pounds to represent ...

Senator Deb Fischer has reintroduced the She DRIVES Act to help women and other demographics be included in test crash ...

The 35-mph full-frontal crash test uses a new 5th-percentile (small adult female) dummy instead of a 50th-percentile "male" dummy on the passenger side. Additional measures for chest deflection ...

Since the 1970s, crash test dummies - mechanical surrogates of the human body - have been used to determine car safety. The technology is used to estimate the effectiveness of seatbelts and safety ...

We've all seen a crash test dummy, and some of us have even been compared to them. These bright yellow test dummies have long been an important part of crash testing, one of the most crucial ...

Methods We conducted impact tests with a dynamic pendulum (mass 60 kg) and with crash test dummies (ES-2 dummy, 4.76 m/s impact speed). Outcomes were biomechanical loading experienced by a player in ...

"Outdated crash testing standards make women 17 percent more likely to be killed in auto crashes than men, but that doesn't ...

There are unconfirmed rumors of tests “killing” the crash dummy because the car is allegedly ... “Based on his tweet it sounds like if the test accidents occurred in real life they would ...

The moose crash-test dummy was developed by IT engineer Magnus Gens to see how cars would crumple when they collided with big wildlife. The annual spoof awards for quirky science are supposed to ...

With one of the most recognizable voices in Canadian music history, alternative rock band Crash Test Dummies are a three-time Grammy nominated and JUNO award-winning group, who soared to the top ...

The solution, some suggest, lies in deploying female crash test dummies to ensure vehicles are truly safe for women. However, making cars safer for women is complicated, and not everyone agrees ...