So I went to Mercedes Benz World on Sunday!! Who knew this rather magical place existed just down the road in the unsuspecting suburb - Weybridge. http://tinyurl.com/nf6223h
The reason I'm telling you about this is because apart from the absolutely gorgeous cars, there was rather a gem of an exhibition all about the safety features that are built into their cars. I'm a bit embarrased to say that until that moment the car industry was all fuel efficiency and speed to me but in fact there were exhibits from carefully designed air bags to fit around the entire interior of a car to infra red cameras for night time driving. While I was wandering around, the IPEM mission statement came to mind - yes really ;) - "Our aim is to advance physics and engineering applied to medicine and biology for the public good" and I thought well you definitely have to have a deep understanding of human biology to design these specific safety features. May be we could persuade these engineers that joining the IPEM would be a good idea. However, while I would welcome a link into this quite different application of engineering and physics to human well-being I wasn't at all sure what it would be that the IPEM would be bringing into their world.
Comments below please :) - How do you think we should start swelling our membership now that we don't have compulsory trainee joiners?
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