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 ...

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.

Working with a team of engineers, Linder has created a “female” crash dummy and is using it to test women’s safety in low-severity rear-impact collisions. Linder recently spoke to CNN about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps one of the biggest contributors to the decline is a device with a pretty horrifying history -- the crash test dummy. Crash test dummies weren't always the mannequins you see launched on an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's a fact. Since the 1970s, crash test dummies have been used to test for car safety. And here's another fact. Those dummies are modeled on men, only men - average male build, average male weight.