Word: crashing
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Furthermore, Germans are not alone in testing corpses in car crashes. During the past 20 years, the French carmaker Renault said about 450 corpses had been used in accident simulations in France. And since the 1940s, cadavers have been crash-tested in the U.S. at the University of Virginia, the Medical College of Wisconsin and at Detroit's Wayne State University. General Motors and Ford continue to contribute 40% of the $750,000 Wayne State receives each year to conduct such tests...
...Germany parents who were asked to donate their children's bodies were at first appalled. But almost all subsequently gave their permission when they learned that data from the crash tests are vital for constructing more than 120 types of instrumented dummies, ranging in size from infants to adults, that can simulate dozens of human reactions in a crash...
...road during the past 20 years, the vehicle fatality rate in the U.S. has decreased more than half. Much of that improvement is due to the introduction of such devices as seat belts, air bags, safer windshields and stronger doors -- all of which were developed with the aid of crash dummies. "My research with children's corpses helps to save lives," Heidelberg researcher Dimitrios Kallieris told the German newspaper Bild. "Anyone who has seen smashed children in an accident will understand what is at stake...
...Blue, Julie (played by Binoche) has every reason for her swank suffering. Her composer husband and their young daughter have died in a car crash from which Julie barely escaped. So she hides away from her friends and herself. "I don't want any love, memories, belongings," she says. "Those are traps." It takes her the length of the film to realize that isolation is the deadliest snare, that the only release is art and passion. But the true drama can be found in Kieslowski's meticulous images. Cool and seductive, they are the perfect frame for Binoche's harried...
...furor arises over the use of human cadavers in crash tests...