Designers and engineers face an almost impossible challenge -- to use truck bed liner paint, normally used to protect vehicles from scratches and knocks, to protect an entire building from a massive explosion.
There are nearly 3000 railway crossing accidents each year. With more extreme experimentation, the Smash Lab team tests an idea to use giant airbags on the front of a train to push cars safely out of the way.
The Smash Lab team has an idea to reduce the number of fire-related deaths. Their sky safety idea uses magnetic roller coaster brakes devices which have incredible stopping power. A stunt man slides down a hundred foot tower to prove the system.
People travel towing boats, mobile homes, motocross trailers; but unlike a semi, there's no backup system to stop in an emergency. The Smash Lab crew has an idea; can retro firing rockets bring a safe, controlled stop? Watch firing rockets ignite!
Stranded at sea, sailors wait for a passing ship to be rescued. Top secret torpedo technology is used to develop mid ocean rescue. The idea is to design a coast guard life-boat that can be dropped out of a long range plane to help in a matter of hours.
The team uses CO2 fire extinguishers to stop the bad guy in a high-speed car chase. The system has to work fast, but car engines are hard to kill. They must find a way of targeting the cool gas each and every time, and then find ways of deploying it.
