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 ...

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 ...

Digital sensors record thousands of bits of information during every crash test GM has 400 crash dummies worth about $45 million Latest dummies could soon lead to changes in crash-test procedures ...

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 ...

More than one-third of Americans are obese, and one recent study showed that obese drivers are more likely to die in a car crash. So the world's largest maker of dummies is making one that is obese.

Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother sustain serious injuries while her ...

Yes, even dummies are recognizing the ongoing obesity epidemic. Dummies as in crash test dummies. No, not the musical group that sang "Mmm mmm mmm mmm"...but the mannequins that are the unsung heroes ...

Crash-test dummies are used to test the safety of vehicles, but what happens when they no longer reflect bodies of the general public? The world's leading crash-test dummy producer, Humanetics, has ...

An expert on car safety knew there was something wrong with the typical lean and featureless crash-test dummy. Trauma surgeon Stewart Wang, M.D., director of the University of Michigan International ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Keeping Soldiers safe is a top priority for vehicle engineers. Army researchers partnered with industry and academia to develop the next generation crash test dummy.

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 ...

Crash-test dummies need to look like real people to measure injuries in auto accidents – and for Americans these days, that means looking older and fatter. Engineers at Humanetics, a company that ...