The moose crash-test dummy was developed by IT engineer Magnus Gens to see how cars would crumple when they collided with big wildlife. The annual spoof awards for quirky science are supposed to ...

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 ...

The solution, some suggest, lies in deploying female crash test dummies to ensure vehicles are truly safe for women. However, making cars safer for women is complicated, and not everyone agrees ...

Lawmakers are urging traffic safety leaders to update crash test dummy standards in a letter aiming to advocate for women's safety behind the wheel. For the past several years, the National Highway ...

When vocalist/keyboardist Ellen Reid decided to retire from touring and singer/songwriter Brad Roberts had back problems in ...

The redesigned crossover was deemed acceptable in the updated side impact test, with the dummies indicating a risk of torso injuries. The crash test dummy in the driver's seat had it worse ...

Humanetics is the only US producer of crash-test dummies. ABC spoke to their CEO, Chris O'Connor, about how they're producing dummies these days. He says that studies show that obese drivers are ...

That’s because these vehicles have no publicly available crash-test ratings. The same is true for the Tesla Cybertruck. Although Tesla has made bold safety claims about the vehicle and released ...

Every new car is checked by the authorities to ensure it meets minimum rules in all sorts of areas, including crash ... but the test days take hours of preparation. The dummies have to be in ...

In 2018, 25 years after the release of their multi-Grammy nominated hit album “God Shuffled His Feet”, The Crash Test Dummies hit the road for the first time in 20 years with an Anniversary ...

Also, the aforementioned laws of physics dictate that frontal crash-test results can only be accurately compared among same-size vehicles. This means a top-rated compact vehicle will not ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently updated its side crash ... the rear dummy. The Trax and Envista fared even worse in the updated moderate overlap frontal test.