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Study finds -- Women are more cautious in following road traffic rules

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  UAE, Women are more cautious in following road traffic rules. Accidents are less likely to cause for women than men. People in UAE conducted a study with both men and women who own a vehicle. The study shows women are less likely than men to have accidents. Women are more cautious in following road traffic rules. Also they fasten the seat belts while carrying their children. Last 6 years survey taken and found out that women were less likely to be involved in road accidents than men. Last year report says 26% of men and 20% of women were involved in accidents. The report concludes, women focus on safe driving.  Click follow-up button or share your email ID to receive our posts.

At Dubai airport, travellers' eyes become their passports

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  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning. On Sunday, travelers stepped up to an iris scanner after checking in, gave it a good look and breezed through passport control within seconds. Gone were the days of paper tickets or unwieldy phone apps.  Now, the key east-west transit hub is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction — an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country. It’s the latest artificial intelligence program the United Arab Emirates has launched amid the surging coronavirus pandemic, contact-less technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. But the efforts also have renewed questions about mass surveillance i