A cartoon prank suggests yes ... in the moment before a crash, we bring you YouTube proof, of sorts. Mark Rober put out a CrunchLabs video recently highlighting the key drawbacks to Tesla's ...

The result was spectacular in the worst possible way: a gaping, cartoon-style hole as the car ... But as with anything ...

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.

Women and older people are being failed by our crash test dummies, according to the US Government Accountability Office. The GAO has just published a new report on the topic and is concerned that ...

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 ...

Therefore, she “introduced a bill to make sure vehicle crash tests use female dummies too — it makes a difference for safety & is just common sense.” Women are more likely than men to get ...

The crash tests that regulators use to rate vehicles’ safety don’t use female test dummies in the driver’s seat in a key test, and in the tests where they are used, the dummies are less ...

Yet, federal regulations governing vehicle crash test minimum standards require crash-test dummies based only on male anatomy. On average, women are smaller and lighter than men. But as Jason ...

Dr Astrid Linder is leading the development of the first dummy modelled on the average woman Since the 1970s, crash test dummies - mechanical surrogates of the human body - have been used to ...

In the early 1970s, the gods of crash test dummies at GM created the Hybrid I, designed to represent the average male in height, weight, and proportions. When engineers needed dummies to represent ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s, crash test dummies - mechanical surrogates of the human body - have been used to determine car safety. The technology is used to estimate the effectiveness of seatbelts and safety ...