The Ford Motor Co. is developing digital human children with lifelike skeletal structures, internal organs and brains for use in virtual crash testing.
The company says that traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for people from age 4 to 34. “A child’s body is very different from an adult’s,” said Dr. Stephen Rouhana, senior technical leader for safety, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. “We want to better understand how injuries to younger occupants may be different.”