ARLINGTON, Va. — If you're in the market for a new car, or just curious how safe your vehicle really is, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released results of a new whiplash prevention ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is always looking at new tests and procedures to help make vehicles safer in the event of a collision. The agency’s latest test is a new seat and head ...

Crash dummies aren’t dumb; they’re packed with complicated sensors, gathering data about collisions. There’s a push to require automakers to test with dummies modeled on female bodies, not just male ...

Two full rooms in the new building store hats, coats, bikes, hygiene products, and more. Items they don’t have but people ask for are put on a wish list. Tonight, a Republican GOP forum was held in ...

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, ...

Females generally have higher injury odds from passenger vehicle crashes compared to males. That heightened risk affirms the need for crash dummies that account for biological differences between male ...

“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by Crash Test Dummies from ‘God Shuffled His Feet’ (1993) When you hear Brad Roberts’ deep voice on this song, you start to imagine a multi-decades-long career where the singer is ...

The largest, plushest, and most technologically advanced Palisade yet has aced two of three IIHS crashworthiness tests. However, the family-sized crossover didn't offer adequate rear-occupant ...

Automotive crash test dummies are born in Ohio, brought to "life" near Detroit, and then sent around the world to make cars safer. Built to spill: The life of a crash test dummy On shelves at a ...

On shelves at a Humanetics facility in Huron, Ohio, skulls stare from their eyeless sockets, shiny and silver. Around a corner, a rack is filled with squishy, peach-toned arms, legs, torsos and butts.