TAKING AUTOMOBILE CRASH TESTS TO NEW LEVELS, THE SAAB auto division of General Motors ran a series of tests using human cadavers for the “passengers.”

Claes Tingvall, a car safety specialist with the Swedish Road Administration, told the newspaper Expressen that GM recently finished a multi-year research project in which dead human bodies were used.  He said that for certain things, only real human bodies will suffice.  However, he stressed that they only used bodies that had been donated by the people themselves before they died.

Tingvall explained that the cadavers were also used in experiments that helped in the development of better crash test dummies.  (That’s what he said, folks. - ed.)

The Swedish online paper The Local has the STORY.

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