[sombrero_john]

> A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks.

Or women's weaker musculoskeletal systems provide less protection against blunt force trauma?

[roughly]

Or, like medicine and a whole variety of other fields, “male” is assumed default and anyone who isn’t the default has worse outcomes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/car-safety-women...

[Andrew6rant]

Guess what year the NHTSA started using female crash dummies?

2003, thirty years after they started using male crash dummies. And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

What year do you think they mandated a crash dummy that was actually based on the female body?

Just guess. I think you might be surprised that they haven't done this yet. It's in the works (see THOR-5F), but it's crazy it's taken so long.

Now guess when they first put the 2003 female crash dummy in the drivers seat for the frontal collision crash test. They still haven't!

[anonfordays]

>And the NHTSA's female dummies were essentially male dummies shrunk to 4'11" and lightened to 97/108lbs.

Lol. Lmao even: "According to a 2021 report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the average weight of women in the U.S. over the age of 20 was 170.8 pounds."

https://www.forbes.com/health/womens-health/average-weight-f...

[mrguyorama]

If you look into car safety testing and design, they haven't used "Woman sized" crash test dummies until very very recently.

Cars were less safe for women because they were not designed to be safe for women.