The transportation department has unveiled a first crash test dummy in the US modeled specifically on female anatomy, a move officials say is meant to close decades of safety gaps in vehicle testing.
Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, unveiled the THOR-05F, an advanced female design for a crash-test dummy with upgraded technical specifications. According to the transportation department, the dummy will be incorporated into federal vehicle crash testing once a final rule is published.
Although men make up the majority of annual car-crash victims, women are more likely to die in collisions of comparable severity. Women are also 73% more likely than men to sustain serious injuries in a crash, according to studies. In addition, they face a higher risk of specific trauma, including pelvis and liver injuries.
Sure, but does she get equal pay?
This just in: women are not just slightly smaller men. Difference in spine/height proportion, hip joint location, hip joint angle, fat distribution, center of mass, and breasts, just to name some things off the top of my head.
All those plastic Halloween skeletons are anatomically male, by the way. Really, nearly all depicted skeletons and skulls are male. The hip/pelvis is reliable by looking at whether the hip goes out more sideways than downwards and whether a baby skull would fit through the pelvic hole. The jawline is another indicator, with males having square jawlinse and females having pointed chins, as viewed from the front. I don’t know about you but when I first learned that, I was shocked at how feminine the sample skull looked. Yes, obviously, genetics play a role in jawline so it’s not a deadset sign, which is why the pelvis is used more consistently.
“And here we see the seatbelt sliding sideways to squash one boob and cut into the side of the female dummy’s neck because it’s not sufficiently adjustable. Meanwhile we notice that in order to be able to fully depress the brake pedal, the female dummy must position the seat so close to the steering column that the airbag will likely cause severe injury.”
They’ve been told these things by actual living women for decades but maybe they’ll find it harder to ignore the proof from the plastic dummy.
They would have to design and make two cars of each model, one for women and one for men. Where’s the profit in that when it’s easier to just ignore those issues.
Volvo tried at one point.
You are using quotes, but what are you quoting? Because it’s not from the article that I can see.
Are you quoting yourself?I agree with the observation, but it’s kind of misleading to post it as a quote.
They were using quotes to write in the voice of a hypothetical character. The tone signaled that to me pretty much immediately and I’d be a bit surprised to find any significant number of people took this as an actual quote.
In that case the normal thing to do is to lead with
Narrator: …Not to make a false quote.
Pretty moronic that I’m downvoted for pointing out it’s not actually a quote of the article.
But apparently the majority of lemmy users don’t give a shit about misleading formats, and will downvote when it’s pointed out.I don’t give a shit if it’s obvious to the majority, it’s the ones it’s NOT obvious to that count.
The tone made it very obvious it was not a real quote.
Nothing else was needed.
That presumes people have read the article, and can see the difference in tone.
As a Dane there would be nothing wrong in having a similar tone in an article here. The same goes for many other countries.
Not everything is USA or Anglo-style body shame double standards, where saying boop makes things 21+.
And requires parental warnings more than showing people killing each other.
Could as easily have been a tongue in cheek comment.
Knowing this administration, they’ll focus on reviving that old myth about cars causing uteruses to fall out and ban women from using them
“Decades” more like centuries but I digress
The first crash test dummy was made in 1949 and used by the Air Force. Automotive test dummies didn’t come until 1968. How is that “centuries”?
How long do you think that cars and crash test dummies exist?
The first car produced in small series was created in 1886. That’s not “centuries” ago. The first crash test dummy was developed in 1949, that’s not even one century ago.
Her name is Ellen Reid and she’s a fucking saint