The test produces a zone of simulation whose artificiality will be the condition of the real it simulates. The answer is yes, if you believe crash test dummies. In the beginning there was Parachute Man. The marks both prepare the dummy for receiving the crash and are re-marked with the event of the crash itself. In turn, the use of corpses as test subjects reverses this principle in producing only irreversible injuries.
All injuries are already fatal to corpses.
The crash opens the crypt beyond the pleasure principle loop into the realm of the living dead. The periodic return of the dead in the history of crash testing marks a belief in this technical readability. The dead are clearly subject to a fatal crash, their animation keyed to their guaranteed fatality. This cannibalization returns as indigestion in scandals over the use of cadavers in crash testing. 8 This German connection re-runs a Frankenstein dream latent in the use of animated cadavers.