Obese Crash Test Dummies to Reflect The Average American Driver

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  1. S L H

    S L H New Member

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    Crash test dummies have long helped auto manufacturers keep cars as safe as possible, but the slim plastic mannequins are increasingly poor mirrors of the modern American man and woman.

    So the world's leading producer is making a fatter version.

    Humanetics, which manufactures most of the crash dummies used to clear cars for sale in the United States, is in the process of developing a new obese dummy to better mirror the U.S. population. The company already has a version in the works that weighs more than 270 pounds and has a body mass index of 35 (30 and above is considered obese by the CDC).

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...as-obesity-problem-fatter-crash-test-dummies/
     
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    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    nuke test 1960s ones where normal to skinny i see [​IMG] women where healthy and attractive had good shapes ;) not like the fat feminist now adays [​IMG][​IMG]
     
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    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    ? why are all the Test Dummies white, shouldn't it be the other way around ARRG!
     
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    Obesity leads to faulty memory...
    :confusion:
    Obesity linked to 'worse memory'
    26 February 2016 - People who are obese have a worse memory than their thinner friends, a small study shows.
     

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