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.

A prolific producer of cutting-edge military hardware in World War II, Alderson is most famous as the father of the crash test dummy. In scientific circles, these objects are known as ...

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 ...

Sure, the first male crash test dummy was introduced in 1949, the first child-sized mannequin came along in 1994 and there was even a crash test moose in use earlier this year. But, there hasn't ...

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 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 ...

Consequently, the GAO is recommending that NHTSA create a comprehensive plan to improve that crash test dummy data. There's no question that cars today are safer than they were even two decades ago.

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. The value now lies in the data behind the ...

Since the 1970s, crash ... test for car safety. And here's another fact. Those dummies are modeled on men, only men - average male build, average male weight. Sometimes, in lieu of a female dummy ...