On November 20th, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officially introduced the THOR-5F, the most advanced female frontal crash test dummy ever developed.

Redefining safety for the age of intelligent mobility, Volvo’s groundbreaking adaptive safety belt, one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025, protects every body like never before, showcasing how innovation and collaboration are reshaping protection for all.

CAERI has set a new benchmark in vehicle safety by adopting the THOR-AV-50M ATD in its C-IASI protocol. Partnering with Humanetics and global Tier-1s like Yanfeng and Autoliv, the team is redefining safety standards for “zero gravity” and reclined seating positions.

The United States Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has released the Spring 2024 Unified Agenda, detailing federal regulatory and deregulatory actions.

Humanetics celebrates its 30th anniversary of operations in Erie County, Ohio, and its 15th year in Huron, Helping to Save Lives Worldwide.

Humanetics and its partners have developed HBM Connect™, an omnidirectional, biofidelic, and user-friendly model designed for product engineers to seamlessly operate within virtual environments and meet future NCAP certification requirements.

HBM Connect® was designed with product engineers in mind and its speed and focused application is especially significant as they develop new safety products and navigate new virtual requirements from global NCAPs.

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern warfare, ensuring the safety of military personnel is of paramount importance. One such crucial element in this pursuit of safety is the use of military blast ATDs.

NHTSA has taken a significant step towards enhancing vehicle safety standards with the long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to make the most advanced ATDs available for use in regulated and voluntary 5-Star Safety Tests.

Today, more than ever, manufacturers, engineers, and researchers are working tirelessly to develop groundbreaking innovations that have the potential to revolutionize how we protect ourselves on the road.

Euro NCAP Approves the Humanetics aPLI Legform for Evaluating Advanced Pedestrian Protection and will include it in technical bulletin TB 029.

The legacy dummies that are in most crash test regulations today were conceived 45 years ago and are lacking in some critical measurement capability that can help with injury prediction. Identifying these missing elements into crash testing and dummy design can lead to more accurate injury prediction and help improve vehicle safety designs.

There are significant differences and implications between the THOR-5F and the Hybrid III 5th pertaining to the accurate representation of female physiology and the fidelity of data produced from crash test results.

Let’s peek behind the curtain to see how processes in the past determined body size considerations for vehicle safety design and what might be required in the future to include even more types of people.

The Safe System Approach is based on the recognition that people will make mistakes, but the consequences of those mistakes can be mitigated through the design of the systems in which they operate.