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A Swedish engineer designed the first female crash test dummy

The device was designed for the future design of seats that better protect women, since statistics show that they are more exposed in the event of an accident.

  • 24/09/2023 • 23:29

how that women are more exposed in the event of an accident.

 

The device, called SET 50F, is the first of its kind and was tested strapped to a chair, launched at 16 kilometers per hour on a metal rail at a test center in Linköping, south of Stockholm, before coming to a crashing halt, he said. the AFP news agency.

 

Simultaneously, a screen transmits the images at the moment of the crash in slow motion, revealing the shape of a breast.

 

Astrid Linder, designer of the "anthropomorphic test device" took a “typical” woman as a model and began the development of the “one-of-a-kind” mannequin.

 

"The neck muscles are generally weaker in a woman," said Tommy Petterson, one of his colleagues at VTI, pointing with his finger at the nape of the silhouette's neck deformed by the impact.

 

"If you compare it with a male model, you see that the neck is more flexible," added the specialist