now on bbc news, it s time to click. this week, we are guarding against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. 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 where is this looking at? this is in hong kong. in a remote area. and we will see if this cannot can detect it. taking images of the video and send it to the ai. we use analytics to see if there is any fire like signal. hopefully you get the alert on your phone. yes, every time we touch this, we see an image and then the highlight of the fire fan is here. yes, so the alert comes through. i didn t notice it but the camera did. the ai did. we train the al to see the signs of fire and then the ai looks at the images to see if there is any fire like signal. the inherent risk of wildfires means this is a space in which the tech has had to grow. across the world, different techniques are being employed, giant sprinklers in spain to infrared cameras in america. ai will have its place,