NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Swedish engineer Astrid Linder, who lead the project to create the prototype for the first crash test dummy modeled after the average woman’s body.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Here’s a fact. Since the 1970s, crash test dummies have been used to test for car safety. And here’s another fact. Those dummies are modeled on men, only men – average male build, average male weight. Sometimes, in lieu of a female dummy, researchers use a smaller version of the male one, about the size of a 12-year-old girl. Well, a team of Swedish engineers is working to
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