Better engineering has made the front seat much safer in head-on collisions. But the back seat hasn't kept pace. It's a ...

James Bruton is something of a robotics genius. He’s a YouTuber who regularly creates impressive machines from 3D-printed parts and complex electronics. Recently he’s branched out into larger more ...

Until the early 1990s progress in the crash safety domain was minimal and although interest for increased passenger protection has been high since the introduction of this particular concept to the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Swedish engineer Astrid Linder, who lead the project to create the prototype for the first crash test dummy modeled after the average woman's body. Here's a fact.

For something commonly called a "dummy," the mannequins used in crash tests are surprisingly sophisticated and so specialized that they're not much use out of automotive safety labs. When the US Army ...