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- everythingscience@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- everythingscience@lemmy.world
Well, we’ve had cars for a long time….but finally we’ll be testing them for safety for women, too.
In a sea of bad news, today this got me excited.
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There are crash test dummies of all genders and sizes
Access denied on the link with “we don’t know how you got here”.
Not sure why, but here is the same picture I put on Imgur. It’s from 2014, but there are female, teenager, children, and baby crash test dummies going back decades. This is nothing new.
It honestly boggles my mind that in 2023 there are still no mandatory crash tests required for the female form.
Additionally, I drive a lot of hire cars and it’s shocking how many makes/models’ seatbelts would effectively garrotte me if I were to crash while driving.
A lot of things are still designed with men in mind unfortunately. Drug trials, car safety testing, ac systems, mental health systems etc.
From the article they cite at the top in an effort to claim that crash tests since the 1960’s have only used male dummies… ”GM also needed a test device to simulate a small female for testing of driver airbags. In 1987, GM transferred the Hybrid III technology to a dummy representing a 5th percentile female."
Not saying that a true representation of the female body isn’t needed, just that this specific article is hyperbolic in its wording and is misconstruing it’s sources to produce a desired narrative. Maybe best to find articles with a more nuanced, fact based reporting
I listened to a podcast episode about this, I believe it was 99% Invisible. The female dummies that have been used in the past are basically just scaled down males. That’s not exactly ideal.
