• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    2 months ago

    The quote in context

    The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has now taken steps to address that issue, stunning safety advocates with proposed vehicle design rules that the regulatory agency says will help reduce pedestrian deaths.

    For the first time ever, manufacturers would be required to study the impact of test dummies hit outside of vehicles. The rules would likely change the design of what America drives permanently.

    “We have a crisis of roadway deaths, and it’s even worse among vulnerable road users like pedestrians,” Sophie Shulman, the agency’s deputy administrator, said in a statement announcing the proposed rule last week.

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      2 months ago

      manufacturers would be required to study the impact of test dummies hit outside of vehicles.

      Okay so they’re totally just going to say they passed their study with flying colors until they get caught juking the stats resulting in a $10,000 fee.

      $10,000 is $10,000 I guess.