Bloomberg Businessweek (North America)

Innovation: A smarter crash-test dummy called Thor

- ——Jeff Plungis

Next Steps NHTSA says it plans to use Thor as part of its public, nationwide crash-test analysis beginning in 2019. Once that happens, auto companies will also have to make their vehicles markedly safer, says Warren Hardy, head of Virginia Tech’s Center for Injury Biomechani­cs. “We’re going to be able to design things to prevent a wider range of injuries and keep people intact,” he says, “not just keep them alive.”

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