4. Deadly injustice: Why cars aren’t safe for women
Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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The Importance of Trusting Car Manufacturers
Real-life crash data reveals that the Active Head Restraint System had actually made things worse for women. This is exactly the kind of problem that could be picked up at the crash testing stage if only we bothered to use it. Instead, explains Astra, we have to wait for decades' worth of actual crashes involving real women's bodies to collect the data we need. Do you really trust car manufacturers to be honest about how great their cars are for women? If we're really going to fix this problem, it's going to have to come through rules that all car manufacturers will have to prove they followed.
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