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Ghastly! Saab may have used human cadavers for safety research

Vägverket, the Swedish Road Administration, is reporting that General Motors used ten human cadavers for crash research. While it isn't clear which GM vehicle hosted the corpses on their one-way trip into a wall, a spokesman for Vägverket said it was most likely the Saab brand. The spokesman was also quick to point out that all of the cadavers were people "who had donated their own bodies." (Well, that is comforting to know!) While cadavers were used in the earliest crash tests (first started in the late 1930s), most of us were under ... Read more →

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