How Modern Female Crash Test Dummies Could Save Lives

How Modern Female Crash Test Dummies Could Save Lives

Alurnet.com – Road safety can soon improve for women thanks to a change in crash test dummies the dummies have been used for decades but had never been designed to reflect female bodies.

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Even the women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a crash than men Transportation Correspondent Geobani test has more these are the crash tests that shape core safety in America.

But the dummies inside are based on designs nearly five decades old and are largely built to reflect the male body in fact the current female dummy is essentially.

A scaled down male dummy my small intestine is raptured Maria Weston Coon and her family were in a serious crash in 2019 while her dad and brother walked away without injury she was hospitalized.

She says cars are designed to be safer for men than for women because there’s no accurate female dummy in testing she’s now advocating for change when a seatbelt is designed to stop the four momentum of someone’s body in a crash it’s designed to stop that by hitting on your bones.

Which condoms were a good amount of force right I don’t have the male pelvis that the seatbelt was designed for so instead of hitting the bone it’s lit up and hit my stomach and that’s.

How it burst my intestine experts say in general females have less muscle mass than men they tend to sit closer to the steering wheel and their legs are often bent at a different angle.

To reach the pedals their different pelvis size could also affect the fit of the seatbelt all differences that can change how their bodies respond in a crash that’s where Chris O’Connor.

Comes in so there’s sensors in here that didn’t exist 40 years ago he’s the CEO of humanetics the largest crash test dummy manufacturer in America.

The newest crash test dummy is designed around the injuries that a female would experience that are different than a male so you can design safer cars against those injuries O’Connor and his team are pushing to get these more accurate female.

Dummies into government tests now our goal and our mission is to save lives and we developed this test equipment to represent the current injuries.

Fatalities being experienced and yet the products are not getting to the market fast enough i’m sure everyone who was watching this right now is astounded to believe in the year 2024 that we do not use a physiological female crash test.

Dummy behind the wheel of a car to determine the safety of women poly trottenberg is the deputy transportation secretary overseeing nitsa the national highway traffic safety administration.

The previous generation of vehicles there’s no question that there was a disparity between male and female crash outcomes and look as a department we are obviously committed to closing.

In the most recent vehicle years we’ve seen that gap closed but i think no one is going to rest until we fully close that gap a 2023 government accountability report slammed nitsa for not having.

A comprehensive plan to address risks and limitations in the information the current dummies provide nitsa has announced it’s been working with humanetics on that new advance and most importantly.

Anatomically correct female dummy they’re already experimenting with it more anatomically accurate in terms of abdomen upper chest a more sophisticated set of sensors this is a real upgrade.

So to the critics we say this has taken too long there’s too much red tape to make this happen what do you say you know to some of those critics you know including the manufacturers of these crash test dummies there’s been some back and forth they’ve given us models that needed work.

That weren’t durable and repeatable as we need them to be at nearly a million dollars a piece humanetics believes the newer dummies are ready and nitsa hopes they could be approved by the fall.

This is about our mothers and about our daughters and about our sisters every woman getting in a car is at more risk than a man and even if nitsa finally approves the female dummy in the fall.

It may still take four or five years before we actually see them in mandated crash tests that’s because the car companies need some time to sort it all out dianne transportation correspondence you have a need test thank you.