Rep. DeLauro praises Buttigieg’s plan to solve ‘gender inequity’ by promoting female crash test dummies

[Dashinka 24,480]

Does Mayor Pete or this Rep. know how these crash test dummies identify or their preferred pronouns?

 

Rep. DeLauro praises Buttigieg’s plan to solve ‘gender inequity’ by promoting female crash test dummies

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rep-delauro-praises-buttigieg-s-plan-to-solve-gender-inequity-by-promoting-female-crash-test-dummies/ar-AA1a7CAo

[TBoneTX 45,259]

And they're honestly pleased and satisfied with this.  If so, they are insane and should be institutionalized.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Buttigieg Announces Closure Of Interstate System For 8-10 Days As Highways Undergo Racial Sensitivity Training

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/buttigieg-announces-closure-of-interstate-system-for-8-10-days-as-highways-undergo-racial-sensitivity-training

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

On 4/21/2023 at 8:00 AM, Dashinka said:

Does Mayor Pete or this Rep. know how these crash test dummies identify or their preferred pronouns?

 

Rep. DeLauro praises Buttigieg’s plan to solve ‘gender inequity’ by promoting female crash test dummies

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rep-delauro-praises-buttigieg-s-plan-to-solve-gender-inequity-by-promoting-female-crash-test-dummies/ar-AA1a7CAo

I thought this was going to be the Bee

[yuna628 9,671]

So this is quite obviously a silly article, which I'm reading on my down time to reclaim some sanity (it's a long story but my dad and hospital are like best friends now). And of course framing it through the lens of gender equality is also quite silly, BUT food for thought here guys. Crash dummies are used on old 70s spec of the frame and bone structure of an average man back then. There may actually be something to consider to put a dummy in a test crash with an updated frame and bone structure of a female, in the same way we should be putting in kid and baby models too. Impacts to the body because of differences may happen differently. Previous tests as the article notes have failed to render what may happen to the body correctly because of this old spec. And I should think that we could do test with all different sizes of bodies too. Overweight persons, taller persons, slim, and shorter persons should all be examined rather than just an average size. That may help cars be better designed in the future. I think it's silly to hype it as some sort of gender equality advancement, but in terms of safety it might be helpful?

 

Anyway back to the hospital. I'm sure someone will crack a joke about female drivers soon. 😉

Edited April 27, 2023 by yuna628

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

3 hours ago, yuna628 said:

So this is quite obviously a silly article, which I'm reading on my down time to reclaim some sanity (it's a long story but my dad and hospital are like best friends now). And of course framing it through the lens of gender equality is also quite silly, BUT food for thought here guys. Crash dummies are used on old 70s spec of the frame and bone structure of an average man back then. There may actually be something to consider to put a dummy in a test crash with an updated frame and bone structure of a female, in the same way we should be putting in kid and baby models too. Impacts to the body because of differences may happen differently. Previous tests as the article notes have failed to render what may happen to the body correctly because of this old spec. And I should think that we could do test with all different sizes of bodies too. Overweight persons, taller persons, slim, and shorter persons should all be examined rather than just an average size. That may help cars be better designed in the future. I think it's silly to hype it as some sort of gender equality advancement, but in terms of safety it might be helpful?

 

Anyway back to the hospital. I'm sure someone will crack a joke about female drivers soon. 😉

Hope everything is going to be all right. 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2023 by Nature Boy 2.0

[TBoneTX 45,259]

7 hours ago, yuna628 said:

There may actually be something to consider to put a dummy in a test crash with an updated frame and bone structure of a female, in the same way we should be putting in kid and baby models too. Impacts to the body because of differences may happen differently.

This good point was actually acknowledged somewhere recently, I want to say in American Thinker.

[Dashinka 24,480]

13 hours ago, yuna628 said:

So this is quite obviously a silly article, which I'm reading on my down time to reclaim some sanity (it's a long story but my dad and hospital are like best friends now). And of course framing it through the lens of gender equality is also quite silly, BUT food for thought here guys. Crash dummies are used on old 70s spec of the frame and bone structure of an average man back then. There may actually be something to consider to put a dummy in a test crash with an updated frame and bone structure of a female, in the same way we should be putting in kid and baby models too. Impacts to the body because of differences may happen differently. Previous tests as the article notes have failed to render what may happen to the body correctly because of this old spec. And I should think that we could do test with all different sizes of bodies too. Overweight persons, taller persons, slim, and shorter persons should all be examined rather than just an average size. That may help cars be better designed in the future. I think it's silly to hype it as some sort of gender equality advancement, but in terms of safety it might be helpful?

 

Anyway back to the hospital. I'm sure someone will crack a joke about female drivers soon. 😉

And you know the history of how these crash test dummies were developed?  Btw, it is not a problem with the dummies, but rather an issue with the crash test requirements such as FMVSS 202/208/214.  In the end it is all still about the physics (mass, acceleration/deceleration, velocity and time) and has little to do with the dummies used as measurement tools.  Other than that, even if all the dummies are simply scaled down versions of a male dummy, that should gain the companies much higher ESG scores.