Crash-test family adopts its newest member
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is out with plans to repeatedly subject a 10-year-old to a slew of collision experiments. The 10-year-old in question, of course, is a crash-test dummy -- in this case, one made to represent young passenger and part of a whole family of new dummies designed to test crash effects on toddlers, pre-teens and teenagers.
The New York Times notes that the new program is in response to a greater number of boosters and safety seats designed for older and larger children.The NHTSA now tests restraints for children up to 65 lbs., and the govement is also expanding federal child safety seat standards to include devices made for kids weighing up to 80 pounds.
Do larger children really need safety haesses?
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