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.

The first crash test dummy designed to mimic a woman’s body has finally been developed by a team of Swedish researchers, hoping to end the long history of man-centric safety in cars. Standing at an ...

View post: Walmart Has a 'Very Sturdy' $1,120 Outdoor Storage Shed on Sale for Just $130 In the early 1970s, the gods of crash test dummies at GM created the Hybrid I, designed to represent the ...

Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ensure greater safety of women in the U.S. Women are on average more likely to ...

James Bruton is something of a robotics genius. He’s a YouTuber who regularly creates impressive machines from 3D-printed parts and complex electronics. Recently he’s branched out into larger more ...

Women make up more than half of U.S. drivers, but are 73% more likely to suffer serious injuries in a crash than men, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They are 17% more ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Crash test dummies: You know them from the iconic public service announcements. Over the years, they have contributed to making cars safer for everyone. But a revealing new ...

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 a lot ...

September 13, 1899. That's the first time on the historical record (in the U.S.) that a person was killed by a car, and it would be far from the last. According to the NSC, motor-vehicle deaths in the ...

Car companies are only required to test vehicle safety using crash dummies modeled after men. fStop Images - Caspar Benson via Getty Images Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in ...