Female crash test dummies weigh only 100 pounds

A woman is 73% more likely to be injured in a car accident than a man. This statistic comes from a study conducted by students at the University of Virginia. City laboratory, who claims that one reason may be the crash test dummies used to represent them.

In 2003, "female type" crash test dummies were introduced. They were five feet tall and weighed 110 pounds. Today, nothing in these mannequins has changed. According to the report Medical News TodayHowever, the average woman in the United States is five feet three and a half inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. Are you starting to see the problem?

Jason Foreman was one of the scientists working on the study. As for the results, he said that an attempt to do anything with the available information "just hasn't been made yet." Unfortunately, the chances that something will change in the near future are almost zero.

Becky Mueller, senior research engineer at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, says it takes 20 to 30 years of biomechanical research to fine-tune and create new crash test dummies. She added: "You never want people to get hurt, but in order to get enough information about the real world, we have to sit patiently and wait for real world data to come in."

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