One reason for that might be there is no crash test dummy that represents the average female body used in car safety testing, despite women making up more than half of all licensed U.S. drivers.

Chris O'Connor runs Humanetics, the leading maker of crash test dummies. He says a new dummy, which weighs about 100 pounds heavier and stands a few inches taller, is more like the real modern day ...

In frontal crash tests performed for both NHTSA and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, this 5th percentile female dummy either rides as a passenger or doesn’t participate in the test at ...

Around since the 1980s, the traditional crash test dummy is often seen in car commercials to vividly show a vehicle's safety level, but perhaps are best known by the talking crash test dummies in ...

"As the population changes, we must have test equipment that resembles consumers today," said Chris O'Connor, the CEO at Humanetics, which creates the dummies, including one that weighs 273 pounds.

That's what it's like for a dummy. Naturally, they're extremely expensive. GM, for example, has about 400 dummies worth about $45 million at a half-dozen crash-test safety labs throughout the world.

Crash Test Without Safety Belts Buckled In The Back Seat by DPCcars on YouTube Crash dummies really hit the big-time in the 1980s, with the debut of public service announcements starring "Vince ...

Crash-test dummies are used in tests that simulate the response to impacts, accelerations, deflections, forces and movements generated during a crash. The new dummies cost $500,000, a price ...

Creating a female crash test dummy would be “enormously expensive” and take 15-20 years. “The question is not whether it would be appropriate to improve protection for women.