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
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
but what if there was a way to get to swimmers in trouble even faster without lifeguards even having to set foot in the sea? well, here, in southern wales, a new solution is being trialled. one good thing obviously from this is because we ve had comms with cardiff, it s just happened, they will go and put their own notice out to let other aviators know that there is going to be some sort of motorised aircraft system flown from this beach. now, it sounds like they re talking about a drone here, but it s notjust any drone. 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 in much higher wind speeds than a typical drone. and you can sit it on the water, float and take off again. but that s not all.
the smart mouth guard lets individuals with limited hand function control smartphones, computers and wheelchairs by translating bite patterns into instructions. 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 in trouble even faster without lifeguards even having to set foot in the sea? well, here, in southern wales, a new solution is being trialled. one good thing obviously from this is because we ve had comms with cardiff, it s just happened, they will go and put their own notice out to let other aviators know that there is going to be some sort of motorised aircraft system flown from this beach. now, it sounds like they re talking about a drone here,
to swimmers in trouble even faster without lifeguards even having to set foot in the sea? well, here, in southern wales, a new solution is being trialled. one good thing obviously from this is because we ve had comms with cardiff, it s just happened, they will go and put their own notice out to let other aviators know that there is going to be some sort of motorised aircraft system flown from this beach. now, it sounds like they re talking about a drone here, but it s notjust any drone. 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 in much higher wind speeds than a typical drone. and you can sit it 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