05-08-2008, 06:55 PM
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Location: The OC™
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Many humans died to bring you this Saab 9-3 Convertible
...not quite.
Human cadavers used in auto crash tests
Published: 7 May 08 15:58 CET
Human cadavers were used in automobile crash tests conducted in the last year by General Motors, the US-based parent company of Swedish car manufacturer Saab.
Claes Tingvall, a car safety specialist with the Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket), told the newspaper Expressen that GM recently finished a multi-year research project in which dead human bodies were used.
“For certain things, it’s important to use cadavers. [The tests] involved people who had donated their own bodies,” Tingvall told Expressen.
He explained that the bodies were used in experiments meant aid further development of crash test dummies and investigate the injuries sustained by human bodies in car accidents.
According to Tingvall, a total of ten cadavers were used in the GM project, and that Saab automobiles were likely involved an account of the brand’s association with safety.
“It’s a part of the [GM] family where everyone partakes in the research results,” he told the newspaper.
Neither GM or Saab acknowledged any tests involved dead human bodies.
“We are with GM through thick and thin. We conduct our own research and try to find other methods to achieve our results, with the help of computers, for example,” said Saab spokesperson Christer Nilsson to Expressen.
-The Local, Sweden
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It must work. Saab 9-3 has been found to be the one of the safest cars ever, especially for whiplash protection.
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05-09-2008, 01:17 PM
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Location: Toronto
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Damn.....that's pretty cool at a certain angle...but abit spooky.
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