NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Swedish engineer Astrid Linder, who lead the project to create the prototype for the first crash test dummy modeled after the average woman's body. Here's a fact.

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 ...

Creating the new crash test dummy is only the first step. It will take more study and new government regulations to get the dummy into use, which some U.S. Congress members are working on.

The moose crash-test dummy was developed by IT engineer Magnus ... way for people to use their fingers when turning a knob. Art History Prize: Peter de Smet and Nicholas Hellmuth, for their ...

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. DASH’s weight ...

The THOR-5F, a more advanced female crash test dummy, is being developed. Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ...