Meet Graham, TAC's interactive sculpture by artist Patricia Piccinini

Meet Graham. To survive on our roads, you’d need to look something like him.
Graham is the TAC’s latest road safety project, highlighting how vulnerable the human body is to the forces involved in transport accidents.
The TAC collaborated with leading trauma surgeon Christian Kenfield, crash investigator expert David Logan and world-renowned artist Patricia Piccinini, to produce Graham - a lifelike, interactive sculpture demonstrating human vulnerability.
Studies show the human body can only cope with impact speeds people can reach on their own, unassisted by vehicles. Graham has been designed with bodily features that might be present in humans if they had evolved to withstand the forces involved in crashes.
When visiting Graham, visitors will have access to the latest immersive augmented reality technology, to look beneath Graham’s skin and better understand how his unique features would work to cushion him from serious injury in a crash.
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[@6to1]

I love how doctors when used as experts ALWAYS wear their stethoscopes... Is he planning on performing a cardiac exam on the film crew?

[@Trildin]

I'll bet the camera crew asked them to wear it so they look doctor-ey

[@roflcopterkklol]

I have survived a car crash at 120km/h and can confirm that i look like Graham.

[@shakom-o-astal5406]

It will be very interesting to see "Graham" as a movie character.

[@jademaryy]

This is a really interesting idea!

[@rainaldkoch9093]

Adding stuff to absorb energy increases the total amount of kinetic energy in need to be absorbed. So another strategy would be to decrease the body size: Short arms and legs, if any. A reduced-depth body, much thinner than a pancake, would be stopped down by the air itself - no need of a safety belt. The tiny nodes of the decentralized brain would be connected by fiber optics to cope with transmission delays.

[@RoamingRob]

...but we didn't get to see Graham?

[@baddmanaz]

Good work

[@baddmanaz]

Vehicle for a very important idea - i see what u did there

[@romaverick]

ergonomics is about adjusting the environment to our bodies not the other way around

[@madmanoliver]

Sooo...where was the interactive sculpture?

[@thehh5118]

So where's the final product?!

[@tujiongyhrd]

Nice one.

[@winonavaleska2474]

I thought this was something different but I'm not disappointed

[@spot1401]

Textbook case of survivorship bias in this "study" (NPR has a great podcast on it): take the damage report in people who actually make it to the hospital and create a scenario around them. They should include a forensic pathologist once in a while. Also scaling is a problem. You cannot just make a certain bodypiece bigger and expect the system to work. Also what kind of setting is this even supposed to be? Modern cars have evolved extremely over the past 50 years or so. When the surgeon claims that the body cannot sustain modern crashes quite the opposite might be the case - the fact that he sees what he sees in his ER is the result of a much better surviveability of crashes. It is not "wow, look at that smashed body!" it is "look how this part could be so smashed up and the rest survived! that guy would have never even made it onto the stretcher in the 80s!". What is also completely left out of the picture (at least in the small bits that were shown) is the role of emergency medicine. A lot has changed there, too! What exactly is the point of this nonsense?

[@nataliatencheva2166]

At first glance the study of human anatomy may appear extremely complicated. It is tru?e that it is complex and your studies will not alter that. As for it being overwhelming, that can be eleviated if you take your study one step at a time. I found an article on Sebs Study Crammer extremely helpful for this.

[@godsmacked1000]

Alright guys. Let's pick it up. Let's start evolving faster

[@Guilleee73]

I'd go straight to the problem instead. Avoid the accidents. Invest in security, not adaption.

[@cozzyscreatures9198]

Who was the sculptor?

[@skylightdown1]

Why not make a car that is safe to our own body when car crash happens instead of making a body to survive a car crash with our current car.

[@harrycowley6786]

yo were the rest of it at

[@vandon6402]

Why aren't there any comments?

[@Knorgas]

No comments?

[@af252]

Why no comments

[@productivitygod7887]

i cant see any comments

[@thaintriguing1]

Welp, I landed on the weird side of KZbin again.

[@inco9943]

Oh so to survive we just have to look like Your mum Kappa123

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

When are we going to design body design for living on Mars?

[@techdavey3486]

Allegedly (I say allegedly because I don't have verified UK government figures) more people were killed on the roads in England in the 1920s than are killed today.! The chief problems were cars that only had braking on the rear wheels. Drum brakes were standard, in fact it would be another fifty years before trustworthy disc brakes became commonplace. The cars of the1920s had no seat belts and no energy-absorbing crumple zones, six volt electrics and dim lighting were also par for the course unless one could afford a Rolls-Royce. As time went by, four wheel braking was introduced. Early attempts to actuate the front brakes were mechanical and horribly tempermental mechanisms that were prone to wear and rust were used. Some of those ancient cars were deadly as it was possible to buy a car with a six cylinder 100 HP engine that had no front brakes! Hydraulic brakes broke the mould although there were still no disc brakes. Economy austerity style cars of which I have driven several, would have seven or eight inch drum brakes which were simply inadequate on hills. If one does the maths for the power needed to be dissipated by the brakes to hold a one ton car to 60 mph on a hill, the figures are astonishing. It depends on the gradient but the last time I did the sums the figure was about forty kilowatts per wheel! Needless to say brake-fade is a certainty. unless one had the sports model with the ten inch drum brakes that were normally used on two ton vans. Oh by the way, long ago on the 1960s a colleague walked away from a really bad smash of about 30 mph head-on into a two foot thick oak tree. The car was a Standard Eight that had no seat belts so maybe drivers don't need to be as tough as Graham . The accident was caused by a worn road surface that allowed water to pond. Unfortunately in winter the water turns to ice which is useless when the car needs grip to turn the corner. The car went straight on and "flew" off the embankment into a wood. The rear axle moved well over a foot and the propeller shaft was Z shaped. What the driver did was to move tight up to the door and brace himself by pushing the steering wheel away from him. When the car hit, the steering column bent away and the car door burst open. The driver was able to roll away! He was extremely lucky as the car which hit the oak tree about six feet above the ground could have landed on top of him.

[@MetalPcAngel]

Oh hey, it looks like "Rubber Johnny" has finally grown. . . and let himself go. Oh boy.

[@faust_extreme_music_composer]

how it has to evolve to withstand an asteroid ??

[@oberezan]

Am I the only one who noticed that Graham itself looks like a copy of the surgeon? ))

[@nataliabrionestorres3515]

wow

[@Nipponing]

WTF is with the thumbs down? Is it from Christians saying they are playing gods? XD

[@Chaosmonaut]

Just a tip here on KZbin: Don't use an interesting thumbnail that is not displayed during the video.

[@rinaldiadam]

wait, no comment?

[@Ua1999_]

No comments

[@Kap3lka]

I wonder what a female version would look like. You guys should make one. :)

[@mrboleus8240]

Man would never evolve this way, cause tech evolving for him.......

[@ynotnilknarf39]

Take the speeds down, replace stupid human drivers with computers, there's your solutions straight away.

[@GoldTegu]

why does this have so many deslikes?

[@jingabell10]

j

[@thisWASengland]

Wayne Rooney should be well safe!

[@CurtisD01]

help

[@liawatson5789]

What did I just watch?

[@growlanser5600]

We should have left the cars for the military and stick to horses for civilians.

[@Seignil]

Where do the dislikes come from ?

[@nomedecotorra82]

Ok demasiada internet por hoy

[@lukefirst407]

Am I the only comment?

[@khadoozzeeyy4878]

First?

[@khadoozzeeyy4878]

Probably because nobody could be bothered to finish watching the video 😂😂😂

[@thanatophobiac3706]

?

[@Replayfix]

First comment

[@gbaybay4919]

comment

[@channelbrown7309]

boi

[@richardjohn6073]

aaa

[@JonnB]

wut?

[@rawnclark]

first!

[@willothewisp1938]

First

[@Kiivo]

First! XD

[@d0ugh]

fuu blya

[@monkeydetonation]

Okay now do plane crash

[@shadowthh]

genetic manipulation is a bad idea

[@Siniestro]

Meet something that doesn't apear on the "presentation" video... what waste of time...

[@maema255]

Its a great concept but its too ugly so most people in this world wont care about it /:

[@Jolinders108]

no thanks i'd rather not look like that

[@backupaccount9263]

Oh God, I can tell the researchers must've died inside trying to communicate with this hippy.

[@BrialMusic]

But is that armpit hair really necessary ? :)) It's kind of discusting...

[@PKedByBlade]

please be fake.

[@TheSwedishAssassin]

No. None of that. Shame on you.

[@joerandella2526]

OMG they're all white, im sooo triggered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@floppyearfriend]

Why are there no comments?

[@largebenusman7628]

First?

[@thomasgates5332]

First

[@joshhn9484]

First