Lorena Fernández Álvarez

Lorena Fernández Álvarez

Groovy engineer. Director of digital communication at the University of Deusto. Working to reduce the impact of gender bias in AI.

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In 1959 engineer Nils Bohlin invented a technology that saves millions of lives each year: the three-point seat belt. Volvo released the patent so that other manufacturers could use the design, making it a virtually universal standard for automobiles. But Bohlin overlooked a small detail: that the person behind the wheel could be pregnant. And it’s not that there weren’t female drivers at that time. In fact, the first person to drive a car a long distance (106 km in 12 hours) was Bertha Benz, in 1888, an automotive industry pioneer and the inventor of the brake pad.

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