Female crash test dummies weren't used at all until 2011 (!!!) & STILL are not used in the driver's seat. Male dummies with breasts are used in the passenger & back seats only.
Yet women are 17% more likely to die in car crashes and 47% more likely to be severely injured.
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Yet women are 17% more likely to die in car crashes and 47% more likely to be severely injured.
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The female center of gravity is in the pelvis, so just adding breasts to male dummies doesn't test for live women. There are also no pregnant dummies. Yet the number one cause of fetal death from trauma is car crashes.
Not one car has ever been tested for a female driver.
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Not one car has ever been tested for a female driver.
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I am stunned by this data. Crash test dummies have been used since the 1970s. But in nearly 50 years there have been no female driver test dummies developed and the argument is it would skew the previous data (that has always ignored the existence of female drivers).
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