Vehicle safety experts call the design 'promising' but note that it is only one tool to improve vehicle safety for drivers and passengers.

About darn time. We at MotorBiscuit have argued for years that the industry needs female crash test dummies. For decades, the ...

For decades, car safety tests have predominantly relied on a crash-test dummy modeled after the average 1970s American man.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Nov. 20 unveiled an advanced female crash test dummy that manufacturers can soon start producing for carmakers to test in their vehicles.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has finally approved the use of a female crash test dummy after almost half a century ...

Crash test dummies revolutionized car safety but never with a female body specifically in mind — until now. The Department of Transportation is unveiling an advanced female crash test dummy that could ...

For the first time ever, American car companies will soon be required to test vehicle safety using dummies that are representative of women.

F, marking a first step toward the government and manufacturers potentially using the dummy in future car safety tests. But ...

Regulators have talked about developing a female THOR model since at least the 1980s. Duffy’s predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, had asked Congress for $20 million to develop female crash dummies. The first ...

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 ...