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Safety

LEAVING your small child in a hot car can be fatal.

Volvo is keen to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening in its cars, and as such, the carmaker has developed a new interior radar that was designed to be sensitive enough to detect the tiniest movements at sub-millimetre scales, such as those of a sleeping toddler.

This new cabin radar is set to be introduced on the new Volvo EX90 flagship SUV later this year.

“No one chooses to be distracted or tired, but we know it can happen,” said Volvo tech specialist Lotta Jakobsson. | IOL Motoring

Girl power

JAMIE Chadwick, 24, is still set on reaching Formula One within the next five years despite the sport’s boss, Stefano Domenicali, doubting any female driver will make it that soon.

The Briton is dominant in the women-only W Series and could become champion for a third time in three editions in Singapore this weekend.

On Wednesday Chadwick tested an Indy Lights car with Andretti Autosport at Sebring in Florida as she explores options on both sides of the Atlantic.

Formula One has not had a woman start a Grand Prix since the late Italian Lella Lombardi in 1976. | IOL Motoring

F1 Party

SINGAPORE prepares for its coming-outof-Covid party as it puts the pedal to the metal to host Asia’s first F1 race since the pandemic this weekend.

Tickets are selling fast and party suites cost up to $70000 (R1.25million) a night.

Tens of thousands of fans are expected to converge on the country for the Grand Prix as the night race roars back after a twoyear absence. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen could retain his world title on the floodlit street circuit around the Marina Bay district.

The city-state will be letting its hair down with concerts by Westlife and Black Eyed Peas, plus US rapper Fatman Scoop and Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens. | IOL Motoring

Price slash

MOTORISTS are expected to see another sizeable slash in the price of petrol next month, according to unaudited data from the Central Energy Fund.

But diesel is likely to be more expensive.

If the final adjustments had to be determined today the price of 95-octane petrol would have decreased by R1.11 per litre and 93-octane by 99 cents a litre.

“The stronger rand undoubtedly contributed to the positive petrol price outlook as well as the lowering of the Brent crude oil price,” said economist Ulrich Joubert. | IOL Motoring

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