Crash testing/the dummy run

摘要

February 1898, Henry Lindfield lost control of his new motorcar on the way from Brighton to London. When he died behind the wheel, he became the first victim of what was soon to be one of the world's biggest killers. As manufacturers began to make cars that could go faster in the 1930s, the death toll rose. But car producers argued that drivers' safety was not in their hands. They explained all traffic deaths and injuries by what was called the 'nut behind the wheel' ideology. As far as car manufacturers were concerned it was always the driver's fault -he was drunk, asleep, or incompetent.