A crash test dummy
is a form shaped like a human, often with sensors, and various
devices to provide feedback on the types and degrees of pressure and
force which a body, subjected to certain traumatic forces, may
experience. Much of what accident reconstructionists believe about
wrecks/auto accidents, and other types of accidents is established
using these functional models.
Of course, even though these dummies are more sophisticated NOW than in the past, and are able to measure things better, they are not now, and I assert, never shall be, a true and correct way of saying whether a human being will be hurt at a given speed. Crash test dummies cannot talk, cannot think, cannot feel, cannot have various diseases, cannot have arthritis, cannot go through the aging process like humans can, and in short, most of the data about forces and damage to a crash test dummy would be fine if you and I were unthinking, unfeeling, inanimate hunks of synthetic material, but we are not. We are alive, we are miracles of flesh, bone, brain, nerves, and each of us is unique,
one of a kind, and though there may be two crash test dummies formed and functioning identically, this is not true of humans.
For example, it is impossible to deduce from CTD (crash test dummy) data, whether or not your wonderful Grandma, with a certain degree of osteoporosis, with a missing kidney, with past history of a neck operation (with hardware installed) who weighs 120 soaking wet,
whether or not she would be hurt at a 10 mile an hour collision in which she was leaning forward, and thus taking some slack in her seat belt, and got whipped back and forth with the sudden impact.
Two elderly females with the same height, weight, bone density, and other factors in common, subjected to the same angles of force and change in acceleration, will NOT have identical injuries. They may have similar complaints, but one may receive a fracture, and the other not. This is born from two decades of being a licensed doctor in Texas and examining and treating a lot of folks hurt in auto accidents / car crashes.
You cannot say that under a certain speed of impact, a person absolutely and positively cannot be injured, but the insurance companies want to say that under a certain mile per hour, one cannot be seriously injured.
But, I can take a baseball bat and move it to a speed of
10 mph against a person's head, there will no damage to the bat, but could be considerable damage to the person's head, brain, and neck. This shows the hypocrisy and ludicrous nature of the insurance companies and their cookie cutter approach to the minimum circumstances which must exist before a person is injured.
Of course, even though these dummies are more sophisticated NOW than in the past, and are able to measure things better, they are not now, and I assert, never shall be, a true and correct way of saying whether a human being will be hurt at a given speed. Crash test dummies cannot talk, cannot think, cannot feel, cannot have various diseases, cannot have arthritis, cannot go through the aging process like humans can, and in short, most of the data about forces and damage to a crash test dummy would be fine if you and I were unthinking, unfeeling, inanimate hunks of synthetic material, but we are not. We are alive, we are miracles of flesh, bone, brain, nerves, and each of us is unique,
one of a kind, and though there may be two crash test dummies formed and functioning identically, this is not true of humans.
For example, it is impossible to deduce from CTD (crash test dummy) data, whether or not your wonderful Grandma, with a certain degree of osteoporosis, with a missing kidney, with past history of a neck operation (with hardware installed) who weighs 120 soaking wet,
whether or not she would be hurt at a 10 mile an hour collision in which she was leaning forward, and thus taking some slack in her seat belt, and got whipped back and forth with the sudden impact.
Two elderly females with the same height, weight, bone density, and other factors in common, subjected to the same angles of force and change in acceleration, will NOT have identical injuries. They may have similar complaints, but one may receive a fracture, and the other not. This is born from two decades of being a licensed doctor in Texas and examining and treating a lot of folks hurt in auto accidents / car crashes.
You cannot say that under a certain speed of impact, a person absolutely and positively cannot be injured, but the insurance companies want to say that under a certain mile per hour, one cannot be seriously injured.
But, I can take a baseball bat and move it to a speed of
10 mph against a person's head, there will no damage to the bat, but could be considerable damage to the person's head, brain, and neck. This shows the hypocrisy and ludicrous nature of the insurance companies and their cookie cutter approach to the minimum circumstances which must exist before a person is injured.
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