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The Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the 3-point seatbelt in 1959. In 2002, the year of Bohlin's death, it was estimated the seatbelt had saved more than one million lives. The design was given away for free to competitors, for the benefit of humanity rather than profit.
In 2012 a Swedish researcher, Anna Carlsson, created the first prototype of a crash test dummy with a female body shape. This after it was found that women had a 47% higher chance of suffering serious injuries in car crashes. https://www.cnet.com/news/world-gets-first-female-crash-test-dummy/
62 years after the seatbelt was invented, the safety of women in cars is still not a priority, and dummies with a female body shape are not in general use in tests, despite all the available data showing how a higher percentage of women die / are injured. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-are-there-no-crash-test-dummies-that-represent-average-women
The same structures, culture and powers of exclusion that so readily risk the safety of women in everyday vehicles are equally present in everyday digital tools and services. In this post I outline the elements of digital ethics that impact wellbeing. https://axbom.com/elements/
