Comment on flowers for the lost
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Than their required use. Gendered crash test dummies have been a thing for a long time, but AFAIK prior to this there was no anatomical requirements at all, including children (?).
Comment on flowers for the lost
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Than their required use. Gendered crash test dummies have been a thing for a long time, but AFAIK prior to this there was no anatomical requirements at all, including children (?).
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This sounds hard to solve, especially for women with fuller bosom. I’m assuming that the car has a mechanism that allows raising/lowering the seatbelt height, and that this didn’t solve the issue…
The answer would probably be a harness, like they use for racing, but it’s so inconvenient to use as to not actually being a solution to a boobie-squashing neck-sawing strap.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Speaking as somebody with a fuller bosom, as you mentioned, the problem is mostly the angle of the shoulder belt. There is an adjustable slide, but it only adjusts four or five inches, which simply isn’t enough for the seven inches difference between my partner and I. The end of the belt is by my ear, not my shoulder. I’m constantly tugging the shoulder belt lower when I’m in the car, either passenger or driver, which is really not safe.
In 2008, I was in a car crash. I was driving a 1998 minivan and got t-boned by a 2006 SUV going 55mph. It turned the van into a banana, pushed the driver’s seat over to the center. I don’t remember the accident itself, but it looks like my head bounced between the B pillar and the airbag/steering wheel, it broke my glasses, cracked my skull, and gave me a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage with a 50/50 survival rate. Literally knocked me cross-eyed, so I was seeing double for forever. It also broke my pelvis into 8 pieces, sliced up my spleen, and broke a few ribs. I still have a bolt holding my pelvis to my spine. Took over a year to recover, then COVID hit while I was trying to get back to work. fml, never doing that again.
Maybe it would have been better if I had side curtain airbags, but the main problem really feels like the seatbelt just doesn’t fit.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh my god, what a nightmare… I hope you’re at least somewhat OK after all that, it doesn’t sound like something many people would survive.