Women are 73% more likely to be injured and 17% more likely to be killed in a car crash than men. Though these sobering ...

Academic Life ; Jasmine Abdulcadir: "We can truly change the lives of many women" Appointed assistant professor in early 2025, Jasmine Abdulcadir has been leading the only Swiss c ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy recently unveiled the design details for the first-of-its-kind advanced female crash test dummy – known as the THOR-05F. Federal safety regulators say the ...

For decades, car safety tests have predominantly relied on a crash-test dummy modeled after the average 1970s American man. This critical oversight has resulted in a significant safety gap: government ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Harley is a noted automotive industry expert and analyst. Earlier this month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy ...

Research shows that women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in head-on car crashes compared with men in the same crashes. The problem stems from a simple oversight that's persisted for ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

When a woman gets behind the wheel of a vehicle today, she is protected by safety features — from seat belts to air bags — that have largely been designed to protect the average man from about 50 ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an advanced female crash test dummy that manufacturers can soon start producing for carmakers to test in their vehicles. The female crash test dummy, ...

The Federal government is adding another female to the team—a female crash test dummy. No, this isn’t the latest DEI hire. The NHTSA wants data on why so many more women than men get injured in car ...