In this episode, the team attempts to use rhino liner in order to see if a home can be “blast proofed” in order to help it withstand an explosion.
The use of aviation technology is incorporated in ways to prevent cars from crossing over medians and crashing into other vehicles.
The Smash Lab team tests to see of a carbon fiber can withstand hurricane force winds.
Can giant air bags attached to the front of a speeding train safely push a car out of the way when stuck at a railroad crossing? The Smash Lab will put this theory to the test.
To see if a home can be kept from shaking during an earthquake, a technology from the inside of the hold of an airplane is employed, which was originally intended to carry cargo with nearly zero friction.
The team uses a mechanical roller coaster braking device in an idea for lowering the amount of fire-related deaths in high rise buildings. A stuntman is used to check the system by sliding down a 100 foot tower.
The team uses an insulating agent, Nanogel, to help fireproof a home from a forest fire, but must first figure how to cover the house with a blanket.
The team looks into a runaway trailer with brake failure, and test the theory of a controlled stop of the trailer with rocket engines.
An experiment to see if a runaway truck can be stopped by a bed of wet sand.
The team tests whether a long range plane can drop a rescue raft for stranded sailors at sea using torpedo technology.
The team attempts to stop a car in a high speed chase using CO2 fire extinguishers.
The team tests measures which can ease injuries for passengers of a speeding car which careens off a road and then bursts into flames as it plummets down a ravine, includes Chuck and Gadget using airbags on the vehicles exterior, while Deanne and Nat use stabilizing rods.
The team uses a reactive-armor technology and a metal-aluminum foam to make a car which can survive a 55-mph hit to the front and side.
Chuck and Gadget help rescue a pregnant couple stranded in a snowdrift with the use of a jet powered snowplow. Plus, Nat and Deanne develop hot-air balloon prototypes.
Chuck and Nat give ideas for building an unsinkable car, while Deanne and Gadget look for ways of saving a woman who has fallen from an ocean liner.
The team works on ways to stop a hijacked 18-wheeler, including jamming the wheels and using aircraft carrier technology.
The team finds themselves trapped upside down in a boat, inspired by the motion picture "The Poseidon Adventure." Chuck and Gadget work on building a collapsible submarine, while Deanne and Nat cut their way free.
An accident with a logging truck has the team using vacuum power and motor racing to keep a truck from crashing again.