German Hermann Joha (above) was one of the volunteers in crash tests with real people in the 70s.
As you know, crash tests – or crash tests – are currently one of the most important tests in the automotive industry.Given the violence of the impacts that a driver is subjected to in real situations, the simulations use dummies capable of measuring the consequences of the impact on the human body. But it was not always so.
“No matter how realistic the dummies , none behaves exactly like a human being”.
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Forty years ago, there were still those who questioned the effectiveness of seat belts. To clear up doubts, at the end of the 70s, those responsible for the "crash tests" in Germany decided to replace the dummies with a group of volunteers. This was the result: