Sentences with phrase «female crash dummies»

NHTSA cited mediocre results with female crash dummies, including just two stars for backseat protection in a side impact and three stars for side impacts with all dummies overall.

The newly introduced side - pole crash test exclusively uses the small female crash dummy in a front seating position.

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The upgraded ratings system evaluates side pole crash testing and crash prevention - technologies and uses female crash test dummies for the first time.

The side - barrier crash test now implements a combination of male and female crash test dummies, with the male positioned in a front seating position (as before) and the small female (new) in a rear seating position.

Revised for 2011, the frontal crash safety test incorporates a crash dummy representative of a small - size female in the front passenger's seat and, as before, an average - size male crash dummy in the driver's seat.

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IIHS agrees that crash tests should use the most biofidelic dummies available but notes that NHTSA hasn't supplied any comparative data to show that THOR, the modified Hybrid III 5th percentile female and the WorldSID 50th percentile male it proposes to use would provide more benefits and drive better vehicle designs than the dummies currently used.

And, for the first time, it will use female crash test dummies to simulate crash scenarios involving women, not just men.