Will Female Crash Dummies Improve Safety For Women? It's Complicated
Experts say improving women's road safety is more complicated than just adding a female crash-test dummy to safety tests.
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Experts say improving women's road safety is more complicated than just adding a female crash-test dummy to safety tests.
Female crash test dummies may help address the fact that women are twice as likely to die in car crashes.
Women are twice as likely to die in car crashes because their body types have never been used in safety tests.
Crash tests are designed to keep us safe. So why are women dying more on the roads compared to men? See how a local lab is putting the focus on females.
Amid inflation and rising national debt, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is asking Congress to spend $20 million to develop female crash dummies for car testing as part of his department's 2024 proposed budget.