Meanderer
Supreme Member
Crash-test dummies are used to test the safety of vehicles, but what happens when they no longer reflect bodies of the general public?
The world's leading crash-test dummy producer, Humanetics, has developed a new, obese human stand-in that weighs 273 pounds with a Body Mass Index of 35.
"The fact is that if you're obese then you're 78% more likely to be killed in a car crash," said Chris O'Connor, CEO of Humanetics, citing the statistic from the University of California-Berkeley's Safe Transportation and Research Education Center.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/30/obese-crash-test-dummies/18168679/
The world's leading crash-test dummy producer, Humanetics, has developed a new, obese human stand-in that weighs 273 pounds with a Body Mass Index of 35.
"The fact is that if you're obese then you're 78% more likely to be killed in a car crash," said Chris O'Connor, CEO of Humanetics, citing the statistic from the University of California-Berkeley's Safe Transportation and Research Education Center.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/30/obese-crash-test-dummies/18168679/