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Crash-Test Dummies Are Fatter - Just like Many Americans

  • February 14, 2017

People, pets and now crash test dummies are getting fatter every year. CNN reports that the crash test dummy manufacturer Humanetics has developed two new models, one of which tips the scales at 273 lbs. There is a utilitarian purpose for these massive mannequins, the average US woman is obese and weighs as much as the average man did in the 1960s. The change in crash test dummy technology is just another example of how the obesity epidemic is impacting the world. Engineers have been forced...