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

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 ...

When the Trump administration announced it was giving the green light to the design for a female crash test dummy, it was welcome news to the advocates who have long fought for better female ...

Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother sustain serious injuries while her ...

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.

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, ...