If you want to understand how far automotive engineering has come in the last three decades, you don’t look at horsepower ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Women are finally getting a dummy of their own. The Transportation Department rolled out the design for a “first-of-its-kind” advanced female crash test dummy, aimed at improving safety ...