The first uniquely female dummy for use in car safety tests is being developed in Sweden, researchers said on Wednesday.All current crash test dummies are based on how men’s bodies react in collisions and other accidents.Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and the National Road and Transport Research Institute are researching how a female body moves as a first step in building the dummy."For neck injuries from rear-end collisions, whiplash, the risk for women is twice as high as for men,” the road institute said in a statement.
