Before Crash Test Dummies, Cars Were Deathtraps "They don't build them like they used to," people say about vintage ...

The dummies instrumented with sophisticated sensors, are allowing scientific to peer into the anatomy of an accident — and engineer life-saving designs and equipment for the vehicles of the future.

Some of Magna’s crash test dummies are, in fact, worth over a million bucks. And if you want to be fancy, you can call them Anthropomorphic Test Devices (but we won’t). Dummy or ATD, there’s ...