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.
millions of brazilians before sunday s run off vote. now on bbc news, 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. dummies through their paces. ok. i am dummies through their paces. 0k. iam ready dummies through their paces. ok. i am ready to be rescued right ok. i am ready to be rescued right now ok. i am ready to be rescued right nova right now. that looks cold. certainly- right now. that looks cold. certainly. but right now. that looks cold. certainly. but how - right now. that looks cold. certainly. but how could i right now. that looks cold. - certainly. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? help rescue swimmers in distress? ., distress? and then from cold and wet to distress? and then from cold and wet to hot distress? and then from cold and wet to hot and distress? and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. - distress? and th
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 would see in those fizzy drink machines. this is a flotation device, so it means i can hold onto this until i am rescued. now, safely back on dry 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 people embrace it to support the lifeguards and lifesavers, it could be phenomenal.
The rescue drone can carry multiple types of buoyancy aids ranging from a tube boy 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 you much like you would see in those fizzy drink machines. this flotation device, so it means i can hold onto this until i am rescued. now, safely