The dummy strapped into a car at a test facility has a name and a very specific set of ancestors. Before anyone built one, ...

In the mid-1980s, crash test dummies Vince and Larry famously broke through America's television sets as iconic reminders of seatbelt safety. With their catchy tagline of "You can learn a lot from a ...

This 800-pound crash test dummy is a stand-in for deer and moose Volvo has one of only two nearly 800-pound crash test dummies in the world.

Extreme car crash testing deliberately pushes vehicles into severe impacts to reveal how effectively their structures and ...

For over half a century, car safety standards have left women’s lives in the rearview. To understand why, filmmaker Eve Van Dyke dug through the half-century history of auto safety in the United ...