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

(AP) - The U.S. government announced major design changes it wants to implement to make the female version of the vehicle crash test dummy more lifelike, potentially replacing a model used for decades ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has just made crash tests harder in an attempt to make back seats safer.

Bald, faceless and empirically lifelike, this dummy may not be much to look at. But experts say it is a quantum leap forward in a decades-long effort to make cars safer for women. In November, ...