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Once every six minutes: the U.S Department of Transportation\u2019s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report showed that there was about one car crash every six minutes in the United States in 2020 (the latest year the data is available). Put another way, there are about 14,386 accidents per day and 5,250,873 police-reported car accidents per year \u2013 and women are at a greater risk for being injured or killed in those car accidents than men are.<\/p>\n

Women are the majority of the drivers and are historically less likely to get into a crash than men are \u2013 but they are also 17% more likely to die in a car crash and 73% more likely to sustain serious injuries from a crash than men are. Despite these risks however, car companies\u2019 crash test regimes require tests on only male-representing dummies (or simply, \u201cmale dummies\u201d), leaving women unrepresented and unsafe.<\/p>\n

The first car crash tests, which were conducted in the 1960s and early 1970s, used living men \u2013 not dummies \u2013 as test subjects based on the idea that men were more likely to die in car crashes than women. When dummies replaced live testers, restricted funds limited the development of a female dummy alongside her male counterpart. Instead, the effects of car crashes were measured only on a male test dummy called the Hybrid III, which was created in 1976 and is still used today: almost fifty years later. The Hybrid III ostensibly represents the average male at 171 pounds and 5-foot-9-inches \u2013 but since men today weigh over 25 pounds more than they did in the 1970s, the Hybrid III doesn\u2019t even represent them \u2013 much less women \u2013 accurately.<\/p>\n

Today, a female dummy does exist but isn\u2019t required in the four different tests that form the current and complete car crash test regime. Those tests, performed for both National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), include<\/p>\n

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\u00b7 The frontal crash test:<\/strong> when a vehicle collides head-on with another object, like another vehicle<\/p>\n

\u00b7 The side barrier crash test:<\/strong> when the driver\u2019s side of the vehicle hits or is hit by a foreign object<\/p>\n

\u00b7 The side pole crash test:<\/strong> when the vehicle crashes into a telephone pole on the driver\u2019s side<\/p>\n

\u00b7 The rollover resistance test:<\/strong> when the vehicle rolls over<\/p>\n

A male dummy is required for all those four tests, but a female dummy is not. A female dummy is allowed to \u201cdrive\u201d during one of NHTSA’s side-impact tests and in IIHS\u2019 side impact test and to be a rear seat passenger in those side-impact tests but her usage is not mandatory.<\/p>\n

In the few tests where she can be included, moreover, the female dummy used today doesn\u2019t represent \u2013 and, subsequently, doesn\u2019t keep safe \u2013 the average woman. For one, she is just a scaled-down version of the male dummy; she doesn\u2019t have any of the physiological differences that women have, such as being smaller and lighter, having broader hips and wider pelvises, and sitting closer to the wheel than men. She also represents the smallest 5% of women by the standards of the mid-1970s: 149cm tall (4 feet 8 inches) and weighing 48kg (105 pounds). The average women has only grown taller (161.8 cm or 5 foot 4 inches) and heavier (77.1kg or over 170 pounds) since then, further limiting the female dummy\u2019s ability to represent the average women. In fact, the female dummy currently used is so small that she can d<\/u>ouble as the car crash test dummy for a 12 to 13 year-old child.<\/u> <\/p>\n

In short, as of 2019, \u201can average adult female crash test dummy simply does not exist\u201d according to Consumer Reports.<\/p>\n

The result has been car safety innovations that benefit men and men only. For example, women are two to three times more likely to suffer whiplash injuries than men, likely because they have less muscle and more boniness around their neck than men do. Out of the two different whiplash protection designs from the 1990s though, only one protected men and women equally. <\/strong>The other reduced life-altering whiplash crash injuries up to 70% for male occupants \u2013 and had no benefit for female vehicle occupants. Airbags are another example. In the late 1990s, women and children were dying in low-impact collisions that shouldn\u2019t have been fatal. The culprits were the airbags, which aimed to keep a male in the 50th<\/sup> percentile of height and weight in his seat \u2013 and didn\u2019t adjust their force for a woman or a child. Instead of protecting the car\u2019s inhabitants, these airbags were actually leading to their fatalities until September 1998 when the NHTSA required advanced airbags, which deployed with proportional force.<\/p>\n

As a workaround for the historical lack of accurate female representation \u2013 in car crash dummies, car crash testing regulations, and car safety features \u2013 some automakers are turning to computer models to mimic how bodies of different sizes and genders, not just the \u201caverage\u201d male body, will react to a crash. The government has become involved in this issue as well; over the past few years members of Congress have argued for and have introduced bills supporting gender parity in car crash testing. In January 2022, the Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote that \u201cpast federal transportation investments have too often failed to address inequities, or even made them worse\u201d because those opportunities and projects did not \u201cengage and utilize women and people of color\u201d.<\/p>\n

The biggest step forward in car crash testing, though, may have been taken n<\/strong>ot by the government but by a group of researchers, led by Dr. Astrid Linde, at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute in Link\u00f6ping, Sweden. In 2022, just last year, they created a new female dummy who represents about the 50th percentile of women in height (162cm or 5 feet 3 inches tall) and 25th percentile in weight (62kg or 137 pounds): the best \u2013 and only \u2013 representation of the average women since car crash tests started over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

This dummy\u2019s very existence may mark a pivotal point in car crash testing and the safety of women in cars. Her creation may be the first step in requiring female dummies to be used in the NHTSA and IIHS car crash test and, in turn, may lead to additional data, new and improved safety innovations in vehicles, and the first equal representation in car crash tests. And with a representative female as an actual, active participant instead of simply an afterthought, women may no longer be the disproportionate victims of the car crashes that happen in the United States once every six minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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