sarah's car was hit from behind last month. there was a big bang and a little little car had been shunted into the back of me by a transit van. it was a really big shock at the time and my daughter was absolutely crying her eyes out. her neck was hurting, and she said her back as well. got a stiff neck and shoulders, i'm having to take medication for that, and both of us are due to see a physio shortly. the anxiety of, are you going to be able to do yourjob or not because of your aches and pains, yeah, it is amazing howjust a bump, a shunt from behind, can impact your life. some scientists say more representative crash test dummies are an important step in improving car safety. engineers here in sweden have been busy working on the first crash test dummy that represents the average woman. dr astrid linder is leading the research. in order to ensure that you identify the seats that have the best protection for both part of the population, you definitely need to have the part of the population at highest risk represented. currently the industry predominantly uses average male dummies in car safety tests, although there are a number of dummies with different weights, ages and sizes. the crucial point, though — the average female is not represented. you can assess how it interacts with the seat during the crash and also how well it protects the occupant, and what is unique about this occupant here is that she is the model of an average female. dr linder�*s dummies are designed specifically to test how well cars protect people from injuries in low—impact rear collisions. she's 162cm tall and weighs 62kg. what you can see here, of course, is the soft part of the body. females are somewhat shorter and lighter than males, on average, and then we also have differences in muscle strength which plays a role in terms of how you respond to a crash. but then in addition, of course, when it comes to the interaction with the seat, we have differences in the shape of the torso and the centre of gravity of our torso and the outline of our hips and pelvis. the engineers are performing tests on the dummy to see what happens to her in a simulated rear crash. alarm blares. so we've just seen the crash test. what are we now seeing on the screen? you see the relative motion of the torso and the head and the head interacting a bit with the head restraint. and you can see that this is a very low severity. it's 7km/hr, there would probably not be a scratch on your car if you were hit with this severity. no damages and so on. but you see the amount of motion that goes on in our body when we are impacted in this severity. and you see that range, don't you, just from the way that the chin moves right back. you really only see that in slow motion. absolutely, it's over in 100 milliseconds. we contacted leading car manufacturers including ford, mercedes, toyota, nissan and audi. they acknowledge the work being done in sweden but they aren't currently required to use an average female dummy by industry regulators. the plans for dr linder�*s dummies will be made openly available next month. it's taken decades to get here but a crash test dummy representing the average female is close to becoming a reality, bringing with it hopes that women will one day be safer behind the wheel. the open water. the last place you want to get into difficulties. last year, lifeguards from the royal national lifeboat institution rescued more than 3,000 swimmers in distress off the coast of the united kingdom. however, tragically, there were still over 100 accidental fatalities in coastal waters in 2021. but what if there was a way to get to swimmers even faster without lifeguards even having to set foot in the sea? well, here, in southern wales, a new solution is being trialled. it's an ip67 waterproof floater drone, so it can fly but it can also float on water. the camera is waterproof, everything about it is waterproof, it can fly in the rain, it can fly much higher wind speeds than a typical drone and it can sit on the water, float and take off again. but that's not all. this drone has a hidden feature that is crucial in its mission to save lives, an ability to not only carry but to release. you've got the payload release mechanism, you can hook up a buoyancy aid to it and remotely release it out to sea. put that over your head, so put your arms through. and that's exactly what we've come to see in action today in a simulated rescue, with me as the willing guinea pig. there you go. and you are in! ok, this is cold. it's really cold and i've got to get into that. now there are, of course, situations where you wouldn't need the drone. for example, if i was close to the shore. in that case, lifeguards could just dive straight in and rescue me but out here, hundreds of metres from shore, and when every second counts, the drone can beat even the fastest of swimmers in a race. whoa, 0k! i'm ready to be rescued right now! the rescue drone can carry multiple types of buoyancy aids ranging from a tube buoy, like you see here, to one that instantly inflates upon hitting the water. we simulated the rescue because you need special permission to drop things out of the sky, and this expands with a carbon dioxide canister, much like you see in those fizzy drink machines. this is a flotation device, so it means i can hold onto this until i'm rescued. now, safely back on dry—ish land, i wanted to find out more about the drive behind this project and whether this would lead to lifeguards being replaced by drones. technology is new to our industry and i think if people embrace it to support the lifeguards and life—savers, it could be phenomenal. it's not there to replace people, that's really important. we need lifeguards, we need humans to do rescues, to resuscitate, to give cpr, first aid, all that kind of stuff when it goes horribly wrong. i think this will enhance traditional lifeguarding. i think we absolutely do need lifeguards and this technology will allow them to maybe do theirjob better because they have more visibility and they can get to places quicker. this life—saving system will be trialled early next year. at £900, the training doesn't come cheap but apparently it will be funded by the beach owner or manager. there's probably quite a few different use cases. the drone obviously is great for dropping equipment, like you saw today, but it also has other opportunities, so it could be used to spot rip currents. and it's notjust how the drones can be used but the additional add—ons that can be plugged into them in the future. these range from high—resolution cameras for photography, thermal cameras, loudspeakers and even sonar. while this will be the first system of its kind in the uk, a similar system has been in place in the spanish city of valencia since 2016. and as you can see here, it's clearly proving it can save lives. that was l] in the water. yep! rather her than me. me too. that's it for the short cut of this week's click. the full—length show can be found on iplayer, and we should be back next week! thanks for watching. see you soon. bye— bye. hello there. it's remaining very unsettled, very autumnal for the next six to ten days, thanks to a very active jet ribbon of air high in the atmosphere, which will be steering weather systems towards our shores throughout this upcoming week. so often we'll see gales or strong winds, spells of heavy rain. and it will also be less mild than it's been of late because we have seen pretty balmy temperatures for the end of october. this is the pressure chart for monday. a new weather system pushing into western areas will bring outbreaks of pretty heavy rain here and persistent rain at times. but further east, it should be a little bit dry and we're still in that very mild air mass. you can see the deep orange colours towards the south. so not a bad day. i think for much of england and wales, eastern scotland for a time, one or two showers developing into the afternoon, but it turns very much wetter for scotland and northern ireland. risk of some localised flooding here, certainly for northern ireland towards the end of the day. but a mild wants to come for all, especially in the south, 18 or 19 degrees. stays wet in the northwest and we start to see some rain pushing into england and wales for halloween evening. and then overnight it turns very much wetter for much of the country, turns windy as well, particularly towards the south through the channel. so quite a wet, unsettled night, i think, to come monday night into tuesday. mild—ish in the south. temperatures dipping into single figures. i think across the north. quite a messy pressure picture then for tuesday, that's monday's area of low pressure clearing out into the north sea. this next feature could bring a swathe of wet and very windy weather to southern britain through the course of the day. so it stays wet for the north and the east. eventually that rain pulls away something a bit brighter later on for scotland and northern ireland, perhaps northern england, north wales. but we'll continue to see showery bursts of rain across southern britain and the winds picking up here, reaching gale force, maybe even disruptive gale force through the channel and will be a blustery day even further north. but not as windy as what will be in the south. not as mild either 15 to 16 degrees, which is still a little above the seasonal norm, low teens across the north of the country. and then into wednesday, a brief ridge of high pressure builds in. that'll settle things down. quite a lot of dry weather around before the next weather system arrives for thursday. so not a bad day, we think at this stage for wednesday starts off with lighter winds, some sunshine around, but the cloud will tend to thicken up through the day, particularly across the west as it turns wet and windy here as low pressure hurtles in. temperatures again the low teens in the north up to around 15 or 16 across the south and the east. that area of low pressure takes over through wednesday night, pushes a band of rain across southern areas, will be followed by blustery showers. and what we will notice as well as we move out of wednesday into thursday, we lose the deep orange colors and there's a slight blue hue there, you'll notice on the temperature chart. so it will feel much fresher than it's been of late. it could be quite wet through the day on thursday across the southeast, that front stubborn to clear elsewhere. it's sunshine and blustery showers and a cooler feel to things in the north. tens, 115 here, 12 and 13 across the south and east. that's a little bit closer to the seasonal norm. in fact, for early november, another weather system will move in for the end of the week. and as we head into next weekend and beyond, it stays unsettled for a while. but then that's just the sign of higher pressure wanting to build in across the south. that'll settle things 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