{"id":1129658,"date":"2021-12-17T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129658"},"modified":"2021-12-17T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:58:44","slug":"group-calls-for-car-crash-dummy-equity-claims-male-body-too-favored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-calls-for-car-crash-dummy-equity-claims-male-body-too-favored\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Calls for Car Crash Dummy Equity, Claims Male Body too Favored"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgroup-calls-for-car-crash-dummy-equity-claims-male-body-too-favored%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Male-Crash-Test-Dummy-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An advocacy group has written a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling for greater equity in car crash dummy tests, claiming that the male body has been far too favored, leading to needless deaths of women.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f8dba2948458c1d7ad08580\/t\/61b93a2fc38fca285ed54c95\/1639529007604\/Buttigieg+Gender+Equity+Letter.pdf\">letter from<\/a>&nbsp;Vehicle Equity Rules in Transportation (VERITY NOW), co-chaired by former Republican Congresswoman Susan Molinary, claimed that vehicle crash tests have not adequately taken into account of the harmful effects that collisions have on female bodies. The letter stated:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>Government standards for vehicle crash testing are outdated and unequal, causing thousands of women to be needlessly killed and injured every year. This deadly gender bias in vehicle safety is unacceptable. It is time to stop studying this issue and fix it \u2013 now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFemales are not just smaller versions of males. Due to differences in physiology and driver positioning, women\u2019s and men\u2019s bodies behave differently in a crash,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The letter further argued that women have a greater chance of suffering whiplash in a car crash \u201crelative to males of the same age\u201d and that women had a greater chance of dying from a neck injury. It further lamented how standard seatbelts do not accommodate pregnant women:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>NHTSA\u2019s current NCAP 5-star rating voluntary crash test regime does not require testing female dummies in the driver\u2019s seat. Instead, a dummy derived from the measurements of a 1970s average-sized male is used. Women are significantly more prone to whiplash in a crash. Relative to males of the same age, females in deadly crashes were 9.4% more likely to die as a result of neck injury. And differences are exacerbated when women become pregnant \u2013 for instance, standard seatbelts do not fit more than sixty percent of third-trimester pregnant women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/group-pushes-gender-equity-vehicle-crash-testing\">Fox News<\/a>, a spokesperson for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a>&nbsp;(NHTSA) insisted that the organization takes into account various body types when testing for safety and provided a breakdown of the tests using female body types.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety is central to NHTSA\u2019s mission and we are committed to improving safety for all road users. NHTSA does use a female crash test dummy in our compliance frontal testing program,\u201d said a spokesperson for the NHTSA.<\/p>\n<p>However, activists believe that female bodies should be tested more in the driver\u2019s seat and the NHTSA promised to expand testing capabilities for a wider range of drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNHTSA&nbsp;is working to develop crash simulation and human body models to represent a wide range of occupant size, sex, and ages.&nbsp;These tools will be used to identify targets for future safety efforts,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advocacy group has written a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling for greater equity in car crash dummy tests, claiming that the male body has been far too &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}