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The first female crash dummy has arrived

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180981072/

INTRO: Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash and 73 percent more likely to sustain serious injuries in a front-end collision. Yet despite these discrepancies, car companies are only required to test vehicle safety using crash dummies modeled after the average man.

“We obviously know a lot of ways that men and women are different bio-mechanically. These differences… have the potential to change the ways that seatbelts interact with the body and with our underlying skeletal structures,” Jason Forman, a biomechanics researcher at the University of Virginia told CityLab’s Sarah Holder in 2019.

In addition to being, on average, smaller and lighter than men, women also have differences in muscle strength and in the shape of the torso, hips and pelvis. These differences all change how their bodies respond to crashes.

Currently, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tests how women respond to crashes, it uses just a scaled-down version of a male dummy. At 4-foot-11 and 108 pounds, it's roughly the size of a 12-year-old girl and represents the smallest five percent of women.

Now, Swedish researchers have created a crash dummy that better represents the female body, writes BBC News’ Shiona McCallum. Their dummy is 5-foot-3 and weighs about 137 pounds, per the publication. The team put emphasis on its chest shape and gave the female-modeled dummy a lower joint stiffness than its male counterpart. It’s equipped with sensors and transducers to measure the force exerted on each part of the body during a car crash... (MORE - missing details)

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