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DUMMIES

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Dummy de crash test Hybrid III instrumentado con sensores dentro de un coche antes del impacto, iluminación cinematográfica oscura

Before Crash Test Dummies, They Used Human Corpses. Here’s the Full Story Every time you get into a car and buckle your seatbelt without thinking, you’re using technology that was developed with real human corpses. Not mannequins. Not computer simulations. Dead people. People whose bodies ended up in university laboratories to be slammed against walls … Read more

THREE-POINT SEATBELT

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Nils Bohlin presentando el cinturón de tres puntos de Volvo en 1959

The three-point seatbelt: Volvo’s most expensive decision and the patent that saved a million lives You’re alive because of a Swede who designed ejection seats Look down. Right now. The strap across your chest, the buckle by your hip, that V-shape that pins you to the seat without breaking your ribs. That’s the work of … Read more