that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final stages of developing the first average female crash test dummy. so, what happens to a woman s body during a crash? shona mccallum has been to linkoping in sweden to fi
mr biden accused the former president donald trump, and his supporters, of undermining democracy and fuelling anger and violence. now on bbc news, click. this week we re guarding against danger and disaster. shiona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. whoa! 0k. i m ready to be rescued right now. that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then, from cold and wet to hot and dry, laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alerts come through. i didn t even notice - that but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians. but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety te
against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. whoa! 0k! i m ready to be rescued right now! that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form. but now a team of engineers in sweden are in the final st
when you re talking about a systemic issue, that means there are going to be things that are just annoying. it s not going to kill me that the shelf is set too high for me in a supermarket, right? what might kill me is that there isn t a. . .that artificial hearts, for example, that most of them are designed around a male body, so they don t actually fit inside the female body. this isn tjust some isolated examples. it s in everything. the map on your smartphone giving you the quickest route rather than the safest route, which a woman might want. and i would argue that s probably not being presented as an obvious option, because mostly men are not as worried as women are about how they get home at night in the dark, all the way through to the doctor missing your heart attack because it hasn t presented in a classic male way. you ve been looking at all of this for some years now. do you think there s been progress? it s an uphill battle. this is a huge change that we re talking about. s
the doctor missing your heart attack because it hasn t presented in a classic male way. you have been looking at all this for some years now. do you think there s been progress? it s an uphill battle. this is a huge change we re talking about, so it s going to take a really long time. that was lara talking to caroline criado perez. now let s have a look at this week s tech news, and tech giants have reported slower revenue growth this quarter. google owner alphabet said sales rose by 6% in the six months to september, but this is the us firm s weakest quarterly growth in nearly a decade outside of the start of the pandemic. a robot fish that can gobble up microplastics from water has been brought to life by the university of surrey. gillbert is a prototype of this year s winning entry to the uk s natural robotics contest, and it has gills that can filter out plastics in the water as it swims. and freely available to download for anyone with a 3d printer.