身体得长成这样才能在车祸中幸存

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A road safety organisation¹ in Australia has created a mock-up of the perfect body needed to survive a car crash. Australia's Transport Accident Commission (TAC) has called its human-looking creation 'Graham'. TAC commissioned a sculpture of Graham and released a video to educate road users about road safety. Although Graham is humanesque, he is somewhat grotesque² in parts and resembles a character from a horror movie. The BBC says: "He has a head shaped like a boulder³, feet snarled⁴ like tree roots and a chest like a wrinkled battering⁵ ram⁶." A spokesperson from TAC said Graham was designed to highlight how frail⁷ and vulnerable the human body is when involved in a vehicle collision on the roads.

 

TAC commissioned celebrated⁸ artist Patricia Piccinini to create the artwork for Graham. She collaborated⁹ with a leading trauma¹⁰ surgeon and a road crash investigation¹¹ expert to get the right look and build for Graham. She gave Graham a thick skull¹², a wider neck, an inflatable chest that acts like airbags, and hoof-like legs that allow Graham to jump out of dangerous situations. TAC chief executive Joe Calafiore commented on why his organisation commissioned Graham as an educational tool. He said: "Cars have evolved a lot faster than humans and Graham helps us understand why we need to improve every aspect of our roads system to protect ourselves from our own mistakes."

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