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 ...

Cars have gotten safer over the decades, but more still needs to be done and the development of female crash dummies may ensure greater safety of women in the U.S. Women are on average more likely to ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy recently unveiled the design details for the first-of-its-kind advanced female crash test dummy – known as the THOR-05F. Federal safety regulators say the ...

Bald, faceless and empirically lifelike, this dummy may not be much to look at. But experts say it is a quantum leap forward in a decades-long effort to make cars safer for women. In November, ...

After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right... The female crash test dummy has been a long time coming ...