While flying cars have long been a vision of science fiction movies, many companies, including NASA, have started turning them into a reality. However, the US space agency have left one'destroyed beyond expectations' after crashing it into the ground on purpose. This test was completed to see how the electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (eVTOL) would respond to such an event. Simulating a'severe crash', NASA engineers dropped a mock eVTOL containing six crash test dummies from a height. NASA has completed a crash test of its electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle to test its response to such an event.

Tesla boss Elon Musk has labelled a rival's criticism of his company's self-driving software a "tragic case of ego [over] ability". Dan O'Dowd, chief executive of a firm that provides software to automakers, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times warning people not to be "crash test dummies" in Tesla vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. The advert, paid for by Mr O'Dowd's Dawn Project initiative, accused FSD of being the "worst software ever sold by a Fortune 500 company". Mr O'Dowd also appeared on various high-profile news networks in the US to make allegations against Tesla's software, calling for a ban on cars using FSD on public roads. As part of the publicity stunt, he offered a $10,000 reward "to the first person who can name another commercial product from a Fortune 500 company that has a critical malfunction every eight minutes".

Virtual testing is expanding its reach to create simulations of the objects in our lives for faster, less expensive, and less wasteful safety – and that will save businesses money and safeguard their reputations. Sure, vehicles are safer than they've ever been. The automotive industry has used decades of crash-testing data to make cars safer and minimize the impact of accidents. But while vehicular design has changed drastically since Cadillacs ruled the roads, crash testing has evolved more slowly. The latest cars use different materials, are structured differently, and have different safety equipment. Yet crash test dummies are based on the average male in the 1970s – 5 foot, 9 inches tall and 171 pounds – and this model drives vehicle safety designs.

On her first day at NASA in 1999, Dr. Ayanna Howard walked into the Telerobotics Research and Applications Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, excited to begin programming Mars rovers with her newly assigned staff. But a male staff member barely registered her presence, saying "The secretaries work down the hall." So began the rise of one of the few female African American roboticists in America. To be fair, Dr. Howard's staffer probably didn't realize that the young woman entering the lab was his boss because he had never met a female robotics Ph.D. Even today, although 74 percent of girls are interested in technology-related fields such as computer science, as adults they represent only 25 percent of all computing occupations.