The driving dead

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Apparently, facing budgetary pressures, car safety researchers in Spain are using dead bodies instead of crash test dummies.

By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Where do i sign up? It'll probably be the only chance i get to be behind the wheel of a new car.

By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Where do i sign up? It'll probably be the only chance i get to be behind the wheel of a new car.

Are you dead then? Bloody clever if you are

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Where do i sign up? It'll probably be the only chance i get to be behind the wheel of a new car.

Are you dead then? Bloody clever if you are

I'm assuming i will be one day. As i understand it it's one of the things that can happen if you donate your body to science.

By *octor DeleriumMan over a year ago

Wellingborough

" As i understand it it's one of the things that can happen if you donate your body to science.

It is.

Motor manufacturers typically use dummies and computer models but nothing beats a decent (especially if young*) cadaver for research use.

There was a paper published in 1995 that calculated that ~60 lives are saved for every cadaver used in research.

Humanitarian Benefits of Cadaver Research on Injury Prevention

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care: April 1995 - Volume 38 - Issue 4 - p 564-569

*Most cadaveric donations are from old people and this type of research requires non-injured bodies with intact vascucular and respiratory systems.