介绍： U.S. Introduces New Female Crash-Test Dummy Standards
When a woman gets behind the wheel of a vehicle today, she is protected by safety features — from seatbelts to airbags — that have largely been designed to protect the average man from about 50 years ago. But female drivers in the United States are 73 pe...

介绍： U.S. Introduces New Female Crash-Test Dummy Standards
When a woman gets behind the wheel of a vehicle today, she is protected by safety features — from seatbelts to airbags — that have largely been designed to protect the average man from about 50 years ago. But female drivers in the United States are 73 percent more likely than a male driver to be severely injured in vehicle crashes, and they are 17 percent more likely to die.
Those higher risks pushed the federal Transportation Department to approve a new female crash dummy. Known as the THOR-05F, it is "more durable, accurate and lifelike," according to the government.
In 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration updated its rating system to include tests with female crash dummies. But most of those tests required the female dummy to be tested in the passenger seat or the back seat, even though licensed female drivers outnumber licensed male drivers by about three million.
Though the Transportation Department approved the specifications for the new dummy, its adoption in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration car safety tests or Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards is not assured.
Ms. Kuhn was seriously injured in a crash in 2019. She and her mother were in the back seat, and both were hurt, but her father and brother, who were in the front seats and closest to the point of collision, were not. She began lobbying Congress to pass a bill requiring federal regulators to use the female dummy and test it in the driver's seat.
"The fight is far from over," Ms. Kuhn said. "Now it's time we hear from the car companies about how they are going to become part of the solution to protect women's lives, not the obstacle in the road."
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This is a case of justice and this is a case of saving lives, and there's just no acceptable argument against addressing this.
—Caroline Criado-Perez
正义之战，人命关天，推进此事，刻不容缓。
——卡罗琳·克里亚多·佩雷斯（《看不见的女性》作者）
生词好句
dummy 英 [ˈdʌmi] 美 [ˈdʌmi] n. 假人
department store dummies 商场里的假人模特
a tailor's dummy 裁缝专用人体模型
get behind the wheel （本文）开车；执掌大权
wheel n. （本文）方向盘
When the manager left, she got behind the wheel and took charge of the whole project.经理离任后，她临危受命，负责整个项目的推进。
A outnumbers B by A比B多出……
outnumber v. 比……多
The fans of this team outnumbered the opposing team's supporters by almost ten thousand.这支队的粉丝比对方支持者多了将近一万人。
lobby 英 [ˈlɒbi] 美 [ˈlɑːbi] v. 游说