Meet Graham. He might look a little different, but I assure you that he’s human. Well, sort of. The reason he looks this way is that he has plenty of body modifications that makes him able to survive a serious car crash.
Graham, the crash test man, was created as part of a new Australian road safety campaign by the Transport Accident Commission (TAC). He was designed by sculptor Patricia Piccinini, a leading trauma surgeon, and a road safety engineer, who modified him based on their knowledge of car accidents. The result isn’t a pretty sight, but it’s certainly a sobering one. As you can see, Graham doesn’t have a neck because these snap easily in car accidents. He also has a flat, fleshy face to protect his ears and nose. Also, if you’re wondering about all those extra nipples, they’re to protect his ribs like a natural set of airbags. All these modifications are needed for a human body to survive a car crash.
Though Graham was not used in any real car crash tests, you might want to consider slowing down behind the wheel next time.
More info: Meetgraham.com | TAC | Patricia Piccinini (h/t)
Meet Graham. He might look different but I assure you that he’s human
The reason he looks the way he does is because his body has been modified to withstand a car crash
Graham was created as part of a new Australian road safety campaign
He was designed by sculptor Patricia Piccinini, a leading trauma surgeon, and a road safety engineer
He has multiple nipples to protect his ribs like a natural set of airbags
Graham’s brain is the same as yours, but his skull is bigger with more fluid and more ligaments to support the brain when a collision occurs
The brain is one of the most vulnerable parts of our body. It sits delicately surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid, which acts as an inbuilt safety mechanism to protect the brain from day-to-day knocks and jolts.
Graham has a rather flat face and a lot of fatty tissue to absorb the energy of an impact
Our faces are a delicate mix of bone, muscle, and cartilage. Many people injured in car accidents receive fractures to their nose, damaging not only the bone but disrupting sinuses and the delicate parts behind the cheekbone. To combat this, Graham has a rather flat face. His nose is reduced and his ears are protected by the larger structure of his skull and neck
Graham has been designed with airbag-like ribs with sacks that do a similar job to that of an airbag
Car seat belts are designed to use the strength of the ribs to help us withstand the forces of a crash. That’s why the three-point seatbelt rests across your ribs and sternum and across your pelvis. It loads the center of your chest, spreading the force over the ribcage until the ribs break when the force becomes too great.
Graham’s skull is a lot bigger, it’s almost helmet-like and it’s got these inbuilt crumple zones that would absorb the energy on impact
The skull absorbs a lot of force on impact simply by fracturing. Essentially this stops the force from carrying through to the brain in much the same way a helmet works. Graham’s skull has been engineered to absorb more of the impact earlier, much like a helmet.
Graham’s knees have movement in all directions so they are less likely to be injured
When a pedestrian is hit by a car it’s usually when they’re stepping out from a curb. On impact, the immediate problem is that the knee is only built to bend in one direction, so it will almost always break first. Depending on the force of the impact, the tendons can also pull, twist and hyperextend well beyond their intended radius.
Graham’s neck is fortified with a brace-like structure that protects his head from injury when there is a sudden movement
There is not enough strength in the neck to stop the head from jolting forward in a crash. The forward motion causes a hyperflexion injury and the backward motion a hyperextension injury. Simply put, the neck is placed under more pressure than its structure can manage. The added danger is the spinal cord running through the neck. If it is to bend and stretch too much it will break, causing serious injuries like paraplegia or quadriplegia.
Graham has thicker and tougher skin to shield and reduce abrasions and road rash
A pedestrian impact is mostly blunt force trauma. However, if our bodies are pitched to the road or if broken glass is involved, then cuts and abrasions can occur. Skin is vulnerable to the road, with bitumen potentially wearing through clothing. This is even more important for motorcyclists and cyclists, who only have minimal protection between themselves and the road.
Strong, hoof-like legs with added joints allow him to jump out of the way quickly in a “spring-loaded” fashion
For pedestrian crashes, there are now so many variables that affect injury severity – the size of the vehicle, height, speed and angle of impact. And there are many situations where legs are badly damaged. In fact, injuries to the legs, feet, and ankles can cause long-term debilitation because we are so reliant on them for everyday movement. The shin itself is the least protected bone in the body, with only a thin layer of skin covering it.
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Share on FacebookI think it is to show reckless drivers that they don't have what it takes to survive the result of their reckless driving, neither do their inocent victims
Load More Replies...I think it's rather interesting. This artist is an amazing sculptor (she always makes life like creatures that give you a sense of disturbance and empathy at the same time) , and i like the fact that they combined art with science. It sticks longer than a regular ad thats for sure. +1
So if we keep crashing, in some hundred million years in the future we would evolve to look like this. Haha
Okay, so this is cool and all but... I think they should've made it more clear that he's actually a *sculpture*...
How would he even be able to drive in the first place? How does he look left/right with that neck-brace?
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Load More Replies...Not sure about car accidents, but those guys just created a juggernaut. Man even his head looks like his- a hemispherical bowl turned upside down! Don't mess with him, your "average" punches won't hurt him as much 😉. P.S: Guys he really looks like Juggernaut. Here: Juggernaut https://g.co/kgs/fAUsi2
I believe the author is trying to explain extense of damage caused to each part of body in an accident. In order to survive the accident, a man should look like the person above which no one would ever wanna be..
Graham may survive any car accident, but he'll never have a girlfriend. This thing is hideous!
BRO WHAT THE GIVE ME POPCORN THIS DUDE LIKE THIS MAN HAVE LITTE TINNY TETOS HE LOOK LIKE HIS HEAD LIKE A FAT BUT HIS LEGS IS HUMAN MY GUY THIS DUDE MUST SCRAP HIS HOLE BODY ON THE GOD DANG ROAD TO BE AN FAT MAN AND A FREAKING HUMAN TO SHOW IF HIS GOD DANG LITTEL TETOS MY GUY
And we aren't genetically engineer people to this standard of survivability en masse in modern world yet?! WHY?!!
I only read the first paragraph and didn't know he wasn't real till reading the comments...
Has he been in any recent car crash? Am guessing not. Even if he was, he would be dead. You guys are just bored a******s.
This is just the best warning that our system is too fragile in the face of accident.
Wow! This is a good dramatic way of telling humans how vulnerable we are to accident and how much careful we should always be in order to avoid it.
Are you guys trying to say God did not create humans well.. Except the lord watch a city they that watch watch in vain ( except the Lord protects us, our precautions is in vain, we can't play God.. That's how those who built Titanic said...
Welp, time to fire up those labs. We've got a human 2.0 to create.
The thing is..... people like this won't go under any kind of car crash..... the rest of world will be holding the passes for all those crashes....
With all the real world knowledge to be had theses days, is b******t reporting like this even nessacary.
They should improve cars so that we survive in car crashes not making monsters ay ay ay
He isn't the only one. I've been hit by 3 cars while on foot, each goijg at least 40mph and been in 4 other accidents while a passenger in a car. I've only ever broken one bone(a rib), once, in my entire life.
This is just one of the probable drug dealers In tipton, I've seen him buying orange chips.......
If this was a legit dude, try doing CPR on him when things go to s**t for an unrelated reason. Cool concept though
Ermmm... please pardon my ignorance but does "Graham" have life? Like is it alive?
Haven't people lived after car crashes before? Is there a dif between car crashes and accidents?
An interesting exercise in what our body may need in order to survive an accident as a pedestrian or as a driver. Kinda creepy, too.
If I looked like graham I don't think I would want to survive a car crash
GMD- genetically modified driver- probably should go with an exoskeleton, get more dates for sure.
what a miraculous achievement of science and technology which proves that human beings are still most intelligent & not machines. sir make me like that too hahahaha
I like this design of human... We can only hope we'd evolve into something so majestic.
No, it's a sculpture of what a modified person could look like.
Load More Replies...Until then stick to driving carefully because nobody looks like Graham
to survive car crash is not to make any. If your front of steering wheel then FOCUS on road!!
the extra nipples really seems like it's just there to make people feel uncomfortable. Why not just pad it with extra bone and fat like they did the head? It's stupid.
This is just....wrong, and weird, and clunky, it just really doesn't get the point across. It's too convoluted to be effective, it takes too much explanation and leaves you still wondering what the hell you just saw. This whole thing sort of fell flat in it's execution.
I don't really understand the point...he seems modified to withstand a car crash as a pedestrian mostly (when you read the explanation). So does this really bother drivers? I don't know the statistics but it's doubtful that pedestrian are involved in car crash because of their mistakes...I believe it's mostly drivers that need to be careful.
I guess the idea is that human body is very fragile and very injury-prone, especially in car accidents, and the sculpture kind of illustrates the point in a creative way?
Load More Replies...total madness making urslef look like an "alien"... ugliness at it's highest level just cos u wanna withstand an accident... stupid!
Bull s**t, if I ran over his car with a semi he'd be f****d and maybe look better
I find this disturbing... Like they did all this surgery on a human... I find it creepy...
I'm terrified of this it's creepy it's thank god not real and it makes you think good post I hope people take seriously. We're week and fragile cars aren't do the math
The money and time spent on this endeavor could have been used to help homeless people, to rescue dogs, or to help build homeless shelters. What a profound waste of time and money. There are already excellent ad campaigns to get people to wear their seat belts. This is just sad.
Obviously they havent been working coz the road death toll keeps going up each year.. just saying
Load More Replies...Can't imagine if the "real" human like Graham was born in this universe. Regardless the extraordinary protection of body structure, human is not supposed to look like this. So gross.
Calm down, this is not real. He is not real, he's a sculpture. It's art that uses shock as means of waking people up to rethink about their driving habits.
Load More Replies...It's a sculpture not a real human and it's to show that we need to pay better attention because this is a sculpture that can survive not us
Load More Replies...Thats not the point. It is a human designed to withstabd crashes...not necessarily retaining other abilities
Load More Replies...I think it is to show reckless drivers that they don't have what it takes to survive the result of their reckless driving, neither do their inocent victims
Load More Replies...I think it's rather interesting. This artist is an amazing sculptor (she always makes life like creatures that give you a sense of disturbance and empathy at the same time) , and i like the fact that they combined art with science. It sticks longer than a regular ad thats for sure. +1
So if we keep crashing, in some hundred million years in the future we would evolve to look like this. Haha
Okay, so this is cool and all but... I think they should've made it more clear that he's actually a *sculpture*...
How would he even be able to drive in the first place? How does he look left/right with that neck-brace?
New generation of Google self driving car drivers
Load More Replies...Not sure about car accidents, but those guys just created a juggernaut. Man even his head looks like his- a hemispherical bowl turned upside down! Don't mess with him, your "average" punches won't hurt him as much 😉. P.S: Guys he really looks like Juggernaut. Here: Juggernaut https://g.co/kgs/fAUsi2
I believe the author is trying to explain extense of damage caused to each part of body in an accident. In order to survive the accident, a man should look like the person above which no one would ever wanna be..
Graham may survive any car accident, but he'll never have a girlfriend. This thing is hideous!
BRO WHAT THE GIVE ME POPCORN THIS DUDE LIKE THIS MAN HAVE LITTE TINNY TETOS HE LOOK LIKE HIS HEAD LIKE A FAT BUT HIS LEGS IS HUMAN MY GUY THIS DUDE MUST SCRAP HIS HOLE BODY ON THE GOD DANG ROAD TO BE AN FAT MAN AND A FREAKING HUMAN TO SHOW IF HIS GOD DANG LITTEL TETOS MY GUY
And we aren't genetically engineer people to this standard of survivability en masse in modern world yet?! WHY?!!
I only read the first paragraph and didn't know he wasn't real till reading the comments...
Has he been in any recent car crash? Am guessing not. Even if he was, he would be dead. You guys are just bored a******s.
This is just the best warning that our system is too fragile in the face of accident.
Wow! This is a good dramatic way of telling humans how vulnerable we are to accident and how much careful we should always be in order to avoid it.
Are you guys trying to say God did not create humans well.. Except the lord watch a city they that watch watch in vain ( except the Lord protects us, our precautions is in vain, we can't play God.. That's how those who built Titanic said...
Welp, time to fire up those labs. We've got a human 2.0 to create.
The thing is..... people like this won't go under any kind of car crash..... the rest of world will be holding the passes for all those crashes....
With all the real world knowledge to be had theses days, is b******t reporting like this even nessacary.
They should improve cars so that we survive in car crashes not making monsters ay ay ay
He isn't the only one. I've been hit by 3 cars while on foot, each goijg at least 40mph and been in 4 other accidents while a passenger in a car. I've only ever broken one bone(a rib), once, in my entire life.
This is just one of the probable drug dealers In tipton, I've seen him buying orange chips.......
If this was a legit dude, try doing CPR on him when things go to s**t for an unrelated reason. Cool concept though
Ermmm... please pardon my ignorance but does "Graham" have life? Like is it alive?
Haven't people lived after car crashes before? Is there a dif between car crashes and accidents?
An interesting exercise in what our body may need in order to survive an accident as a pedestrian or as a driver. Kinda creepy, too.
If I looked like graham I don't think I would want to survive a car crash
GMD- genetically modified driver- probably should go with an exoskeleton, get more dates for sure.
what a miraculous achievement of science and technology which proves that human beings are still most intelligent & not machines. sir make me like that too hahahaha
I like this design of human... We can only hope we'd evolve into something so majestic.
No, it's a sculpture of what a modified person could look like.
Load More Replies...Until then stick to driving carefully because nobody looks like Graham
to survive car crash is not to make any. If your front of steering wheel then FOCUS on road!!
the extra nipples really seems like it's just there to make people feel uncomfortable. Why not just pad it with extra bone and fat like they did the head? It's stupid.
This is just....wrong, and weird, and clunky, it just really doesn't get the point across. It's too convoluted to be effective, it takes too much explanation and leaves you still wondering what the hell you just saw. This whole thing sort of fell flat in it's execution.
I don't really understand the point...he seems modified to withstand a car crash as a pedestrian mostly (when you read the explanation). So does this really bother drivers? I don't know the statistics but it's doubtful that pedestrian are involved in car crash because of their mistakes...I believe it's mostly drivers that need to be careful.
I guess the idea is that human body is very fragile and very injury-prone, especially in car accidents, and the sculpture kind of illustrates the point in a creative way?
Load More Replies...total madness making urslef look like an "alien"... ugliness at it's highest level just cos u wanna withstand an accident... stupid!
Bull s**t, if I ran over his car with a semi he'd be f****d and maybe look better
I find this disturbing... Like they did all this surgery on a human... I find it creepy...
I'm terrified of this it's creepy it's thank god not real and it makes you think good post I hope people take seriously. We're week and fragile cars aren't do the math
The money and time spent on this endeavor could have been used to help homeless people, to rescue dogs, or to help build homeless shelters. What a profound waste of time and money. There are already excellent ad campaigns to get people to wear their seat belts. This is just sad.
Obviously they havent been working coz the road death toll keeps going up each year.. just saying
Load More Replies...Can't imagine if the "real" human like Graham was born in this universe. Regardless the extraordinary protection of body structure, human is not supposed to look like this. So gross.
Calm down, this is not real. He is not real, he's a sculpture. It's art that uses shock as means of waking people up to rethink about their driving habits.
Load More Replies...It's a sculpture not a real human and it's to show that we need to pay better attention because this is a sculpture that can survive not us
Load More Replies...Thats not the point. It is a human designed to withstabd crashes...not necessarily retaining other abilities
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