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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Crash test dummies: You know them from the iconic public service announcements. Over the years, they have contributed to making cars safer for everyone. But a revealing new ...

Samuel W. Alderson is the genius who made dummies smart. The California inventor parlayed a knack for tinkering in his old man’s sheet metal shop into a gift for making highways safer here in America ...

At first glance, Humanetics Innovative Solutions Inc. looks like it has a pretty sweet business model. The suburban Detroit company is the world’s largest maker of crash-test dummies, the ...

They come in all shapes and sizes and, in worst case scenarios, their bones are broken, their spines compressed, and their joints are violently twisted and torn out of place. But instead of being ...

On shelves at a Humanetics facility in Huron, Ohio, skulls stare from their eyeless sockets, shiny and silver. Around a corner, a rack is filled with squishy, peach-toned arms, legs, torsos and butts.

September 13, 1899. That's the first time on the historical record (in the U.S.) that a person was killed by a car, and it would be far from the last. According to the NSC, motor-vehicle deaths in the ...

After surviving a car crash with disproportionate injuries compared to her male family members, Maria Weston Kuhn founded Drive US Forward to advocate for advanced female crash test dummies. Current ...

It all started with DOS for Dummies, a simple user guide to explain how a now almost extinct computer operating system from the early 1980s worked. But nearly 20 years after that quirky but very ...