Are you a woman going solo? Try a blow-up man

LONDON (Reuters) - He fits in a car's glove box, appears at a flick of
a switch and when a woman has finished using him, she can just pull the
plug and he deflates.

He's the "Buddy on Demand," a blow-up man launched on Tuesday with the
aim of making solo female motorists feel less nervous about driving at
night.

According to research by the inflatable friend's creator, insurer
Sheilas' Wheels, 82 percent of women feel safer with someone sitting in
the car beside them and nearly a half don't like driving alone in the
dark. ...

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