You're looking at the latest in high-tech safety equipment. 你現在看到的是高科技安全設備領域的最新設計。
It's the obese crash test dummy. Yes, you heard me right -- the obese crash test dummy. 這是肥胖型撞擊測試假人。沒錯，你沒有聽錯——肥胖型撞擊測試假人。
He and his family, even the wife and kids, have helped save thousands of lives. 他和他一家子，甚至包括妻子和孩子，協助拯救了成千上萬的性命。
They're the unsung heroes until now. 截至目前為止，他們一直都是無名英雄。
As we go to Make, Create, Innovate, Nick Glass is going to sit down with the brains behind the dummy. 我們來到《製造、創作與創新》單元，尼克．葛拉斯與這種假人背後的動腦者聊聊。
You've all seen the hard-hitting slow motion crashes and the dummy in the driver's seat absorbing blow after blow. 大家都看過猛烈衝撞以及假人在駕駛座上接受一次次撞擊的慢動作畫面。
This is the story of one of the great unsung heroes of our time. 這是我們這個時代其中一位偉大無名英雄的故事。
You can talk to a three-year-old, you can talk to an 80-year-old, and everybody knows what a crash test dummy is. 你可以問問三歲小孩，也可以問問八十歲的老人，所有人都知道什麼是撞擊測試假人。
He first started sitting in for us in 1952, when a colonel in the U.S. Air Force was worried about the safety of his pilots. 他最早在一九五二年開始代替我們人類，當時美國空軍的一名上校對於他的飛行員的安危感到擔憂。
Back in that day, it was actually... the testing was done by a Colonel Stapp from the Air Force, 在那個時候，其實……測試是由空軍的一位史塔普上校所進行的，
and he was actually very concerned, ironically, because he said, 諷刺的是，他確實非常擔心，因為他說：
"The Air Force pilots, I'm losing more in car crashes coming to work than I'm losing in our pilots being downed in an aircraft." 「我失去的飛行員較多是因為在上班途中發生車禍，而非駕機被擊毀。」
To begin with, the dummies used in cars were rather crude, made of wood, rope and sandbags, 一開始，車內用的假人相當粗糙，由木頭、繩索和沙袋製成。
but over the years, he's evolved into a much more sophisticated piece of technology and a family man. 不過，多年來他已演化成了一件精密得多的科技裝置，而且還變成有家室的人。
So, the population of dummies expanded out from the basic male to a female, to a very large male, and then it included a child population, 假人的人口擴增了，從基本的男性，到增加一名女性，再增加一名身材壯碩的男性，然後又加了兒童人口，
because the injury rate in children in cars was dramatic. 因為兒童在車上的受傷率極為驚人。
Their role has always been the same -- thousands of crash tests, each one helping manufacturers design safer cars. 他們扮演的角色一直都一樣——成千上萬的碰撞測試，每一次都有助於製造商設計更安全的車輛。
With the introduction of airbags, from the initial crumple zones to steering wheel design -- 安全氣囊的問世、從一開始的撞擊緩衝區到方向盤設計——
every part that's in a vehicle has improved in design over the years and all benchmarked against the crash test dummy. 多年來車輛裡每個部位的設計都已有所進步，而且全都經過撞擊測試假人測試。
This was shown rather dramatically in 2009. 這點在二○○九年以相當戲劇化的方式呈現了出來。
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the U.S. tested a new Chevrolet against a 1950s model. 美國的高速公路安全保險協會以雪佛蘭的新車款和一九五○年代的車款進行測試比較。
Almost all the dummies in use today are made by the American company Humanetics. 當今使用的假人，幾乎全都是由美國公司 Humanetics 製造。
Here, at their European hub in Germany, the dummies are put through their paces. 在這裡，在他們位於德國的歐洲總部，假人也接受了能耐考驗。
With each bone-crunching hit, they're being prepared, or rather trained, for future customers. 在每一次猛烈的碰撞當中，他們都是為了未來的顧客做準備，或者說是磨練。
And there's a new addition to the family, 20 years in the making. 而且，現在家族還多了一個新成員，一個醞釀了二十年才出現的新成員。
So, this is THOR. What's different about him? 好的，這位是索爾。他有什麼不一樣？
It's our most advanced dummy. 這是我們最先進的假人。
The neck has not just rubber. It has wires and damping material that simulates the ligaments in the neck. 頸部不只由橡膠構成，還有模擬頸部韌帶的電線和減震材料。
You have a very complicated measurement system in that chest, so you can see the complete movement of the ribs in three dimensions. 胸腔有非常複雜的測量系統，好讓你可以藉著立體影像看看肋骨移動的完整樣子。
But, what's special is that it's more biofidelic. It has... it's more humanlike than it's ever been before. 不過，特別的是這個假人更具生物真實性。它有……它比以前的假人都更像真人。
And as they become more like us, the inevitable has happened. 隨著他們變得跟我們愈來愈相似，無可避免的事情也發生了。
They're developing dummies that are older and fatter. 他們開始研製較年長和較肥胖的假人。
A couple of the areas that we're seeing are like an obese person, as well as an elderly. 我們看見的幾個領域像是肥胖者以及老年人。
Both of them have a higher rate of injury or death, 這兩者受傷或死亡的比率都比較高，
and as a result of that, we have to look at how do we protect those types of people, because they're still driving cars. 也因此，我們必須研究如何保護那幾類型的人，因為他們還是會開車。
We have a lot to thank the crash test dummy for. 我們要好好感謝撞擊測試假人。
He's helped save countless lives. 他幫忙拯救了無數條性命。
And this is what makes life as creators of the dummy so personally rewarding. 而假人的創造者也正因此覺得對個人來說很有意義。
There's not a presentation I do that doesn't show the number of deaths have been reduced year over year as a result of our test equipment. 我進行的簡報沒有一次不顯示我們的測試裝置導致死亡人數逐年減少。
And if we can continue to save lives, reduce the amount of deaths, that's more important to me than anything else. 只要我們能夠繼續拯救性命、減少死亡人數，這點對我來說比什麼都重要。