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Meet Maria Weston Kuhn, the Gen-Z Warrior Taking on the Car Industry

In 2019, Maria and her family were in a car accident. Her father and brother, sitting in the front seat, were fine. Maria and her mother, sitting in the back seat, were both badly injured. Why?

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Deborah Copaken
Jun 27, 2023
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I’m still recovering from my car crash eleven days ago, so you’ll perhaps forgive me for obsessing over the data I’ve been digging up on how much more dangerous such crashes are to women than to men; how negligent the car industry has been in addressing this known discrepancy; how absurd it is that they only test car safety on male crash test dummies, n…

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