“Female engineers — despite their stubbornly small numbers in all industries — increasingly have a big impact on the vehicles and safety features that Detroit is offering”
“(Chris) Barman (who headed team that designed the new Dodge Dart) likes to tell freshmen women at Purdue University, her alma mater, about her work studying Mercedes-Benz's electronic stability control when Chrysler was owned by Daimler.
She tells them about the thousands of lives that are expected to be saved when the now-mandated stability control is on all vehicles.
"Women want to feel like they are making an impact on the world around them," Barman says. "So I tell them I was part of bringing this technology into Chrysler products that resulted in that reduction in injuries and lost lives."”
BTW The Dodge Dart had a series of self-deprecating “how we designed the car” commercials like below
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