New: plus size crash test dummies

Posted on 29-10-2014 at 8:00 by sir_smokalot – 24 Comments”

Through the years, as the western man fuller and rounder become, except in the world of crash dummies, there is still retained the strong thin ideal of beauty. Ridiculous of course, and therefore the chubby-chasende crashpop now also, convenience.

The dummies: despite opposing messages, they are still indispensable in crash tests, and so continue to have these hi-tech wonders to be made, even though the cost of a copy on to a half a million dollars.

However: we also know that all fat people what faster going to break in an accident, and thus made the company Humanetics, a 124 kg heavy crashpop with a BMI of 35 (a healthy person is between 20 and 25). This specially in the simulation of the people that their bingo wings but it’s hard to back can rotate to an XL seat belt to the size of a piece of strap in their folds let to sink. And this more and more. All about that bass, and so on.

Compared to CNN, says the CEO of Humanetics, the following:

“Obese people are 78 percent more likely to die in a crash. The reason is the way we get fat. We get fat in our middle range. And we get out of position in a typical seat.”

Let that just drop. And no, even though a thick pin, sometimes referred to as ‘airbag’, as’n abdominal apron has little protective capacities in case of a collision.

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Initially, there was talk of fat crash dummies, but then immediately there rose a deafening sound from sofa’s all over the USA. When this kakafonie of grinding jaws full of dorito’s once was, followed at least as loud the protest. That’s why we call them now, but ‘plus size’. We want, after all, not stepping on toes stand that the people themselves no more able to touch.

Update: fat people sit in planes, as witnessed by this letter.