The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety uses crash test data to determine the safest vehicles; this year, it emphasized ...

Currently, IIHS loads its test vehicles with two types of dummy. One dummy represents a 50th-percentile male, and the other represents a 5th-percentile female or an average 12-year-old child.

About DASH 1.0 DASH 1.0 is the first Sleepypod crash test dummy that represents the distinctive sighthound dog shape, having long legs, a deep chest, a wiry body, and a lean head.

Animals haven't only been used to test your shampoo. They've been subjected extensively to crash testing. And by extensively, we mean that over 19,000 of them have died to perfect your car's ...

In 2010 — the birth of Humanetics in its modern form — the standard crash test dummy represented 100% of the business. Today, it is less than a third.

When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested a batch of SUVs in its small overlap frontal crash test earlier this year, it held off on putting the Toyota RAV4 in the blender because the ...