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As a kid in the 1990's, I got to go to the biggest crash test facility in the US, the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety. There were crash dummies of differ
by danielvf 5y ago
As a kid in the 1990's, I got to go to the biggest crash test facility in the US, the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety. There were crash dummies of different sizes all the way down to kids and infants.
Here's a list of current US dummies, including average males, extra small females, kids, etc:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies
- kube-system 5y agoThe IIHS is always ahead of the curve. They're sponsored by insurance companies, so they have a huge incentive to reduce injuries. (It's amazing what can be done when billionaires have their incentives align with a greater good) But, they have no power to regulate. Vehicles that do poorly under IIHS testing are completely legal, they simply get named-and-shamed. Sometimes I wonder how lax NHTSA testing would be if it weren't for the comparison point which is the IIHS.
- brigade 5y agoOn the other hand, because they're sponsored by car insurance companies, they only care about injuries from impacts. Like how them changing their whiplash tests caused neck pain and injuries for anyone significantly outside their test dummies. But because they're not caused by an impact, but rather because they fail cars that allow the user to adjust head restraints to be less effective for the median posture, they don't care.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoAnd they don't care about anything else. Dead people don't pay premiums. Thankfully NHTSA has a much broader mandate.