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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.

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.