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There are currently no crash test dummies used in the U.S. that resember the size of the average woman, which experts say causes women to be more likely to be hurt or killed in a crash.  NBC News ...
There are currently no crash test dummies used in the U.S. that resemble the size of the average woman, which experts say ...
Female crash test dummies would be used in determining vehicle safety under a bipartisan bill sponsored by Alabama’s junior senator aimed at modernizing standards. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt ...
The Center for Applied Biomechanics is crash-testing an industry-standard dummy that is designed to represent a 5th percentile female (5 feet tall, weighing 110 pounds). These tests will help ...
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlined the deficiencies in the current crash testing program, and while the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has long ...
Linder told Criado Perez that female crash-test dummies were suggested in the 1980s, "manufacturers lobbied to not have to include them because of the cost." "When you hear things like that ...
The dummies instrumented with sophisticated sensors, are allowing scientific to peer into the anatomy of an accident — and engineer life-saving designs and equipment for the vehicles of the future.
The 35-mph full-frontal crash test uses a new 5th-percentile (small adult female) dummy instead of a 50th-percentile "male" dummy on the passenger side. Additional measures for chest deflection ...
Methods We conducted impact tests with a dynamic pendulum (mass 60 kg) and with crash test dummies (ES-2 dummy, 4.76 m/s impact speed). Outcomes were biomechanical loading experienced by a player in ...
The moose crash-test dummy was developed by IT engineer Magnus Gens to see how cars would crumple when they collided with big wildlife. This video records some of the crash tests he conducted.