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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Every is talking about how the headrest it's made this way for crash safety when it's blatantly untrue.

The headrest is designed to protect the heads and neck of the average man, not woman. Decades of crash test dummies have all been modeled on the average height and weight of the male body. This is why women are 47% likelier to sustain a serious injury in a crash.

Think of the where the headrest is in the optimal position to protect the driver, and then move that a few inches lower. Adjustable headrest often doesn't even go low enough to accommodate for many women. There is an actual cutoff height where you are just screwed and expected to die more. Not to mention the user error of forgetting to adjust the headrest from the factory setting of accommodating to the average male height.

This is why so many people are curled up like a shrimp. They are either: short, a woman, or the statistically deadliest of all, both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

You're talking about the height of the headrest, not how far forward they go for some reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 45 minutes ago

Oh it's 'blatantly' true that the headrest are for safety. The problem is engineers can't design a perfect one size fits all. So things are designed around averages. It's the best they can do.

If you fall outside of those averages at either end well, there is going to be more risk. As a male who is above average height, automotive headrests add more risk for me just as they do for a smaller woman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

A head rest is designed to stop you getting whiplash. How does someone being shorter, make it more dangerous?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Well there is that while I have also never seen a headrest that goes high enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

While I definitely think there's truth in what you say, I don't think it's the real reason. The posture car seats try to put you in is just not good sometimes. If the seat itself lets you sit up straight, the headrest juts out, or the headrest is okay but the seat is curved into a bowl. It's comfy for lazy sitting, which is what most people will want to settle into, but if you try to be mindful of your posture, you're doing it without real support from your seat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

They really aren't primarily head rests, so comfort isn't the priority and my car's manual doesnt call them that.They're first and foremost head support for accidents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Because head rests are not meant to be pillows. They're meant to cushion your head in a wreck and prevent injury from whiplash. I don't know the specifics but that's the gist. They're for safety, not comfort.

Though the one in the image looks particularly wrong lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

It's not meant to be a pillow but it also shouldn't force your head forward at an unnatural angle just because you have decent posture. Car headrests are designed for hunchbacks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Often my hair is in a ponytail and it does make it impossible to drive comfortably. Like I have to leave my hair down and windows up to drive comfortably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Hmm.. Maybe we need a split headrest. Kids having something fun to pull on is another consideration.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My wife's RAV4 is like this. Long drives are torture after a few hours. My neck, shoulders, and back end up in knots.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

I took my head rest out on my rav.

I might have died when my head snapped off, but at least my back and neck stopped killing me for the five years I drove it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Take them all the way out, and flirt it around.

Or see if it moves

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Okay so I think some people might need a course on why headrests are designed this ungodly way...

during a rear-end collision or sudden braking as the vehicle makes a sharp forward-backward movement. Without the angled headrests, passengers may suffer spine misalignment of spine-related injuries due to sudden movements. The headrests also keep the spine in position with its “forward-looking” design. This stops the pain and other symptoms associated with a misaligned spine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

How does that help when the top of the headrest jabs into your neck? Doesn't that just make a nice fulcrum to snap your neck on?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So.....I should turn my headrest back around, huh?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 45 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Car driver problems lmao. Just ride a dragon to work instead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

No way, I'm still picking scales out of my crack from the last time I gave that a shot

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