4. Deadly injustice: Why cars aren’t safe for women
Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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The Importance of a Female Dummy in Car Crash Safety
Maria's injuries could have been avoided if the Thor 5F with its female pelvis had been introduced into testing before her crash. Astra Linda is a professor of traffic safety at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. She has spent two decades cobbling together funding to create an average female dummy for rear impact tests. In 2012, that work finally came to fruition when Astra unveiled a prototype of the world's first average female dummy - she called her Ava.
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