Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived
by vxNsr on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:48AM
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Asking about avg isn’t a great idea, you really want the modal, which might be near the avg but may not be. This was an issue that came up when they tried to design the optimal fighter cockpit in WWII, they designed a cockpit that fit no one well.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived
by MichaelCollins on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:58AM
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If there's no average male pilot, there's certainly no average driver, male or female. If tests with dummies are to be useful, they have to be interpreted as abstract results, not assumed to correspond 1:1 with what any individual human body would do.
This "female" test dummy won't actually be representative of most drivers, just as the "male" test dummy isn't. Neither for men nor for women. I'm sure the people who interpret the test results understand this already of course.