The Center for Applied Biomechanics is crash-testing an industry-standard dummy that is designed to represent a 5th percentile female (5 feet tall, weighing 110 pounds). These tests will help ...

dummy as we know it would still have to be used to validate the computer generated results. The computer will help in the sense of reproducing a myriad of crash situations, from different angles ...

One of the enduring criticisms of new-vehicle crash-testing programs is that it’s difficult for consumers to determine which models under their consideration are indeed safest when most, if not ...

The dummy is modeled on a 3-year-old and will help engineers better understand what happens during an impact.

A female dummy, left out of federal consumer crash tests for 30 years, reveals the need to better study the impact of crashes on women and smaller people, advocates say.

Testimony resumed Monday in the Karen Read retrial with a defense expert who argued that crash-dummy tests show Read's SUV did not back into John O'Keefe. Read, 45, of Mansfield, a former adjunct ...

It is so small that it also doubles as a dummy for a 12- or 13-year-old child, according to CR. The CDC says the average woman today is 5-feet 3-inches tall and 170 pounds.

For 2024, a vehicle has to earn either an acceptable or good rating in the moderate front overlap test to earn the Top Safety Pick+ award, and the test now includes a dummy behind the driver.