The first clank run booby design to mimic a woman ’s body has eventually been developed by a squad of Swedish research worker , hoping to end the long account of military personnel - centric safe in cars . Standing at an median height of 162 centimeters ( 5 ft 3 inch ) and weighing 62 kg ( 137 pound ) , the booby will search to supervene upon current method , which lamentably misrepresent a woman ’s body in almost every dimension .
In the 1970s , the development of the clangour test dummy inspire car safety . all of a sudden , car manufacturers could quite literally smash their designing into concrete paries and measure out the encroachment on the human organic structure , a trial that not many actual humans were uncoerced to partake in in . Since then , these crash test dummies have become more in advance and more representative of a human body – well , a male body , at least .
This is on the nose where the problem consist . It might storm you to get it on that clangoring tryout dummies are always either male person , or children , and woman in the car are often just correspond by a modest adaptation of the male dummy . The mini - man booby is about the size of a twelve - class - old girl , at just 149 centimeter ( 4 ft 8 Immigration and Naturalization Service ) tall . In the eye of car manufacturing business , the great unwashed are either men , or children .
Sadly , this has genuine - world impacts on elevator car safety equipment . Astudyfrom the University of Virginia discovered that cleaning lady were importantly more potential than men to get hurt in a car chance event while sitting in the front seat . to boot , they are almost three time more probable to have whiplash in an accident compare to a male similitude , both of which are likely due in part to the male prejudice in safety engineering .
" We know from injury statistic that if we front at low severity impact females are at higher risk , ” said leading investigator Astrid Linder in a program line to theBBC .
" So , to guarantee that you identify the seat that have the best protection for both parts of the population , we decidedly demand to have the part of the universe at highest risk represented . ”
The researchers desire that this new dummy will provide that gap to be closed by improving representation for women in car guard inquiry . Before that can happen , though , Dr Linder needs regulators across the world to recognize and apply the use of her dummy , or else many may just bewilder with their current methods .
