crash test dummy
Vehicle safety surrogate
A crash test dummy is a human-shaped mannequin used in vehicle safety testing, designed with sensors to measure the forces and injuries a person would sustain in a collision.
Figuratively, someone serving as a crash test dummy takes the initial risk or punishment so others can learn from the outcome: I was the crash test dummy for the new hiring process.
- simulantArtificial material mimicking another
- mannequinLife-sized display figure
- anthropomorphicHaving human characteristics
- carWheeled motor vehicle
- frontal impactCollision from ahead
side impact · impact assessment · injury assessment · substitute · collision · kinematics · biomechanics · skeletal structure · instrumentation · high speed camera · accelerometer · seatbelt · airbag · calibration · crumple zone · polyurethane foam · prototype · whiplash
- inventionsprinting press, steam engine, lightbulb, light bulb, microscope
- Artificial Beingsandroid, androids, automaton, automata, humanoid robot
- figuresfigure of speech, figure, trope, simile, metaphor
- testing instrumentsspectrophotometer, multimeter, oscilloscope, voltmeter, ohmmeter