When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “SORB,” the Small Overlap Rigid Barrier test, launched in 2012, many ...

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A group of bipartisan women senators is pushing for more diversity in crash test dummies, hoping it will help solve the ...

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The crash test dummy currently used in NHTSA five-star testing is called the Hybrid III, which was developed in 1978 and modeled after a 5-foot-9, 171-pound man (the average size in the 1970s but ...

The Hybrid III (M) is the most commonly used crash test dummy and dates back to 1986. It represents a 50th percentile adult male and is 5-feet 9-inches (1.75 m) tall and weighs 171 lbs (78 kg).

Besides excellent crash-test ratings — it was an IIHS Top Safety Pick from 2007 to 2013 then a Top Safety Pick+ from 2014 until 2016 — the S80 had safety features well ahead of other mass ...