The traditional crash test dummy, with its military physique, could soon be joined by a new generation designed to reflect the rise in the numbers of elderly and obese drivers — and with ‘organs’ that behave like real ones.
Humanetics, a US-based manufacturer and developer of crash test dummies, has revealed two models based on a borderline-obese 70-year-old female with a BMI of 29 and an obese 6ft 2in middle-aged male adult with a BMI of 35.
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