For years women have been forced to limit their driving time to the hours that fall between dawn and dusk because they fear being solo in their cars at night.
According to a study, nearly 82 percent of women won't go out after dark if it requires them to be alone in their vehicle, but one enterprising UK company is poised to change all that.
Sheila's Wheels, one of the UK's fastest growing all female run insurance companies, has come up with the perfect solution that will allow more women drivers to feel safer while negotiating night time driving hazards such as sexual predators and perverts and every other creep that comes out during the darkest hours.
'Buddy On Demand' is what company officials are touting as 'the perfect travel companion' for women who either want to or need to drive after dark, and offers the additional bonus of getting more female drivers into the car pool lane.
The strikingly handsome male blow up doll is flexible enough to fold up and store in a car's glove box until needed, and once positioned in the passenger seat, is easily inflated with the flick of a switch.
"He's really the perfect man," said a spokeswoman from Sheila's Wheels."Unlike a real male passenger whose ego is likely the only thing to be inflated, Buddy is truly a great listener from the moment you flick the switch all the way to when you've had enough of him and pull the plug to deflate him."
The companies decision to further enhance the doll's ultimate utilization by making him anatomically correct is what they're betting on to boost sales.
"We released the Buddy prototype to the public earlier this week and the phone has not stopped ringing," the spokeswoman said. "We've already received thousands of orders from women all over the world who have to drive at night for work, but so far the greatest number of orders have been placed by women who not only don't drive, they don't even own a car."