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 ...

Crash test dummies are effective but new research by Toyota and the University of Virginia aims to reduce pedestrian injuries ...

MILAN TOWNSHIP — The dummy business is getting smarter and bigger for a local company that leads the world in making plastic people. Denton ATD Inc. makes anthropomorphic testing devices — better ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women make up more than half of U.S. drivers, but are 73% more likely to suffer serious injuries in a crash than men, and are 17% ...

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 ...

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 ...

They come in all shapes and sizes and, in worst case scenarios, their bones are broken, their spines compressed, and their joints are violently twisted and torn out of place. But instead of being ...

Yes, even dummies are recognizing the ongoing obesity epidemic. Dummies as in crash test dummies. No, not the musical group that sang "Mmm mmm mmm mmm"...but the mannequins that are the unsung heroes ...

Car safety testing has come a long way since the days of dropping cadavers down unused elevator shafts in the 1930s. That we enjoy greater peace of mind on the road – with fatal accidents in the US at ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Keeping Soldiers safe is a top priority for vehicle engineers. Army researchers partnered with industry and academia to develop the next generation crash test dummy.

Crash-test dummies need to look like real people to measure injuries in auto accidents – and for Americans these days, that means looking older and fatter. Engineers at Humanetics, a company that ...