Have crash tests ever used live (or dead) human occupants?
Some days, you go into work and just get slammed. For most people, that’s just a figure of speech. But for a select few professions, like linebackers, pro wrestlers and crash test dummies, getting slammed is part of the job — literally. Car Safety Image Gallery Now, you’re probably thinking it sounds silly to propose that inanimate objects, like crash test dummies, are employed. Before you start screaming for HAL to open the pod bay doors, consider this: Rusty Haight, a living, breathing human being, has completed more than 700 crash tests — as the dummy. That’s right, a human crash dummy. Crash testing is an integral part of automotive design and engineering, consumer protection and even law enforcement. A number of organizations perform crash tests. Advocacy groups, like Consumer Reports
