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- everythingscience
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- everythingscience
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.
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.
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
Everyone should be using mediabiasfactcheck.
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.