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 ...

As such, he decided to make his own crash dummy as a way to test some of his contraptions before he takes the wheel. As it turns out, that’s not very easy, but it is incredibly funny.

Ever since crash test dummies were first introduced in the 1950s, there has been an inherent gender bias that means testing has centred around the average male body. Dummies used to represent ...

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 ...

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 ...

and one reason might be that we've been using crash test dummies based on the average male (as shown above). When crash test companies wanted to represent women, sometimes they used a scaled-down ...

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 ...