This is Graham. Graham has trouble getting dates, and he’s not sure why. Is it his fat, bulbous head" Or perhaps it’s the fact that his face looks like it had an anvil dropped on it and his ears seem to be retreating from yet another Colt Ford abomination. Or maybe it’s all of those extra air sacks lining his rib cage and the fact that his hooflike legs are, well, hooflike"
We’re kidding, of course. Because in another world?one where humans have evolved as fast as automobiles have?Graham might be the perfect specimen. This is according to Australia’s Transport Accident Commission, which had a trauma surgeon, a crash expert, and a Melbourne-based artist team up to design a car-crash-proof human. The TCA is known for its penchant for shock, and Graham is part of its new Towards Zero road-safety campaign.
Graham getting ready to binge watch the newest season of Orange Is the New Black.
“The truth is, our cars have evolved a lot faster than we have,” said David Logan, a team member on the project and road-safety engineer at Monash University’s accident research center. “Our bodies are just not equipped to handle the forces in common crash scenarios.”
To deal with these forces, the team came up with Graham. Protecting his brain is a much larger skull intended to absorb forces and fracture on impact. His face, concave and fatty, is less likely to be damaged. Instead of a silly wobbly neck, he doesn’t r...