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Lee Vinsel
Personal blog · leevinsel.com/bloghistoryscienceculture
Lee Vinsel's personal blog at leevinsel.com covers history, science and culture. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Carmakers Always Insisted on Male Crash-Test Dummies”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
No comment praises or discusses the writing. The only comment is an anecdote about crash test dummies in a diversity thread and does not link the blog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The is the personal site of Lee Vinsel, who studies the relationship between science, technology, and society. His current work focuses on the history of the automobile.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Carmakers Always Insisted on Male Crash-Test Dummies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-02
What Hacker News says?
My wife always gives the example of car airbags and crash test dummies: carmakers in the 1960s successfully resisted including female-sized crash test dummies. In fact, female-sized dummies were apparently not legally required until around 2012 [1]. How many women (and children or short men!) were injured or even died because a group of male automobile executives deemed male-sized dummies to be sufficient as a unive…
Comment linking /blog/2013/12/30/why-carmakers-always-insisted-on-male-crash-test-dummies
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HN discussionSubmitted 95 Theses on Innovation (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Carmakers Always Insisted on Male Crash-Test Dummies as a story · 1 points
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