Humanetics’ THOR dummies received high marks in the vehicle safety agency’s early tests. Using cadavers from actual crashes ...

Here's a fact. Since the 1970s, crash test dummies have been used to test for car safety. And here's another fact. Those dummies are modeled on men, only men - average male build, average male weight.

The Hybrid III (M) is the most commonly used crash test dummy and dates back to 1986. It represents a 50th percentile adult male and is 5-feet 9-inches (1.75 m) tall and weighs 171 lbs (78 kg).

As such, he decided to make his own crash dummy as a way to test some of his contraptions before he takes the wheel. As it turns out, that’s not very easy, but it is incredibly funny.

Crash test dummy as pop-culture icon. Samuel Alderson died on February 11, 2005, in Marina del Rey, California, after he battled myelofibrosis and pneumonia.

The mini-man dummy is about the size of a twelve-year-old girl, at just 149 cm (4 ft 8 ins) tall. In the eyes of car manufacturers, people are either men, or children. Sadly, this has real-world ...

Here's a fact. Since the 1970s, crash test dummies have been used to test for car safety. And here's another fact. Those dummies are modeled on men, only men - average male build, average male ...