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You, too, can be a" UFO, All you have to do to become an unrestrained flying object is not to wear a seat belt.
The point is brought home in a General Motors film, "UFO/ Unrestrained Flying Objects," which combines starship fantasy with crash-test scenes to show what happens in an accident to car occupants with and without restraint systems. The film can be borrowed free from Viscom Ltd, Unit B 11, Parkhall Trading Estate, London, SE21 BEL.'
Because of the shortcomings of dummies, human volunteers — usually students aged from 18 to 25 — and human corpses — normally the remains of people of 55 or more — are being used in crash tests in parts of America, where the GM film was made. But even they are not really satisfactory.
Citroen use live baboons, which are said to be "probably more realistic than dummies." Sam Finch, a Citroen driver who writes a pretty column in Care on the Road, comments: "If I were less than 5ft tall, had little short bandy legs and arms that were so long my knuckles trailed along the ground as I walked, I would feel even more convinced that I had made the right choice of car on safety grounds,"