These new dummies are called i-Dummies for their i-ntegrated electronics. Said to be much more effective, they aren't cheap. Each dummy costs $125,000, but researchers know they're invaluable.

The solution, some suggest, lies in deploying female crash test dummies to ensure vehicles are truly safe for women. However, making cars safer for women is complicated, and not everyone agrees ...

That's because dummies are susceptible to wear and tear ... it would have been subject to rigorous safety tests, says Philip Leshirley, Product Safety Consultant at the Royal Society for the ...

Since the 1970s, crash test dummies - mechanical surrogates of the human body - have been used to determine car safety. The technology is used to estimate the effectiveness of seatbelts and safety ...