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 ...

While regulators have been testing crash impacts for decades, there’s a dearth of data on women, who face a higher risk of ...

View post: Chrysler Once Sold a K-Car in Japan—and It May Be Extinct Today In the early 1970s, the gods of crash test dummies at GM created the Hybrid I, designed to represent the average male in ...

When the Trump administration announced it was giving the green light to the design for a female crash test dummy, it was welcome news to the advocates who have long fought for better female ...

The U.S. government announced major design changes it wants to implement to make the female version of the vehicle crash test dummy more lifelike, potentially replacing a model used for decades 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 been ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. The first crash test dummy designed to ...

When a woman gets behind the wheel of a car in the United States, she’s statistically more likely than a man to be injured or die if the vehicle crashes. Now, the federal government aims to reduce ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation introduced a new female crash dummy as it seeks to step up safety for women, who face a higher injury risk in car crashes than men. The U.S. government has used a ...

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.

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.