The rise of the crash test dummy changed the way automakers build cars that save lives. Check out the grisly and surprising history of the high-tech devices.

Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ensure safety of women.

Why should car dummies have all the fun? Canadian engineering students build what they say is the first crash test dummy for bikes.

One 2019 study published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention found that women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a crash compared to men.

One reason for that might be there is no crash test dummy that represents the average female body used in car safety testing, despite women making up more than half of all licensed U.S. drivers.

PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- The test dummy has been used in crash after crash, year after year -- for nearly five decades, to be exact. But as Americans continue to get taller, fatter and older, carmakers ...

An expert on car safety knew there was something wrong with the typical lean and featureless crash-test dummy. Trauma surgeon Stewart Wang, M.D., director of the University of Michigan ...

Crash-test dummies are used to test the safety of vehicles, but what happens when they no longer reflect bodies of the general public? The world's leading crash-test dummy producer, Humanetics ...