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Dr astrid linder is leading the research. in order to ensure that you identify the seats that have the best protection for both parts of the population you definitely need to have the part of the population at highest risk represented. currently, the industry predominantly uses average male dummies in car safety tests, although there are a number of dummies with different weights, ages and sizes. the crucial point, though, the average female is not represented. you can assess how it interacts with the seats during the crash and also how well it protects the occupants. and what is unique about ...

And you see that range, don't you, just from the way that the chin moves right back? you really only see that in slow motion. absolutely, it's over in 100 milliseconds. so, why has it taken so long for a dummy representing the average woman to be created? i think it has to do with this resistance that we live in, that it's too expensive, it costs too much, and it's very easy for powerful groups to push back on government entities to say, "we can't afford something else." us company humanetics are also innovating to create more realistic dummies. but their female dummy is roughly the size of an...

It's going to be our grandmother, it's going to be our daughter, and we want them all to be equally safe as well as our sons, our husbands and our fathers. and so we need to make sure that that interior cabin is not biased in any gender equality, we want to make sure it's equal for all bodies. we contacted leading car manufacturers including ford, mercedes, toyota, nissan and audi. they acknowledge the work being done in sweden, but they aren't currently required to use an average female dummy by industry regulators. the plans for dr linder�*s dummies will be made openly available next month...

Representative crash test dummies are an important step in improving car safety. engineers here in sweden have been busy working on the first crash test dummy that represents the average woman. dr astrid linder is leading the research. in order to ensure that you identify the seats that have the best protection for both part of the population, you definitely need to have the part of the population at highest risk represented. currently, the industry predominantly uses average male dummies in car safety tests, although there are a number of dummies with different weights, ages and sizes. the cr...

Dummies will be made openly available next month. it's taken decades to get here, but a crash test dummy representing the average female is close to becoming a reality, bringing with it hopes that women will one day be safer behind the wheel. that was shona. and to talk more about the issue of male—centric design, i met the author of invisible women, caroline criado perez. caroline, you've talked a lot about how the issue of inequality is in everything from medical trials all the way through to gadget design. how big a problem is this? it's a huge problem. it's a structural problem that exis...