4. Deadly injustice: Why cars aren’t safe for women
Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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How Volvo Carlo Accounts for Female Body Types in Their Safety Design
Car safety tools are set up to protect the average male body. So if car manufacturers could make cars safer for women, why aren't they? I tried calling the manufacturers of the UK's top selling cars to ask them about how they account for female bodies in their safety design. Ford never replied, and no one else called me back either. Which perhaps shouldn't surprise me, because the truth is they don't really account forFemale bodies in their design, because they don't have to. Unfortunately, a lot of the physical testing that they're not doing is because it's not mandated, it's not a requirement. OK, so we have this tool, the Thor 5f, and
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