India, June 30 -- Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a front-seat car crash. Yet, the dummy used in vehicle tests by the US highway traffic safety administration is modelled almost "entirely off the body of a man".

The crash test dummy, reports Associated Press (AP), has a name, Hybrid III and has, since its birth in 1978, been built as a 5-foot-9, 77.5 kg man (in the years since, the average American man's weight has gone up by 13 kg). To be sure, there is a female dummy that is a "smaller version of the male model with a rubber jacket to represent breasts". She is usually tested in the front passenger seat or the back seat because, well, women don't drive do they?

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