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 say ...

Volvo has a long history of dealing with moose collisions. They began testing the impact of moose strikes on their cars in ...

MILAN TOWNSHIP — The dummy business is getting smarter and bigger for a local company that leads the world in making plastic people. Denton ATD Inc. makes anthropomorphic testing devices — better ...

Crash test dummies are effective but new research by Toyota and the University of Virginia aims to reduce pedestrian injuries ...

Some of Magna’s crash test dummies are, in fact, worth over a million bucks. And if you want to be fancy, you can call them Anthropomorphic Test Devices (but we won’t). Dummy or ATD, there’s a lot ...

They come in all shapes and sizes and, in worst case scenarios, their bones are broken, their spines compressed, and their joints are violently twisted and torn out of place. But instead of being ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday unveiled a new crash test dummy to be used to evaluate child safety seats and boosters made for children weighing more than 65 pounds. The ...

... or at least that is wat the Swedish carmaker claims. According to a recent statement issued by Volvo, it’s Crash-Test Dummy family numbers more than 100 members ...

Now, in a new research paper published today in Nature Communications, Waymo describes a new computer-based cognitive model ...

Car safety testing has come a long way since the days of dropping cadavers down unused elevator shafts in the 1930s. That we enjoy greater peace of mind on the road – with fatal accidents in the US at ...