Check out the ‘ambulance drone’ that could one day save your life A student in the Netherlands has come up with the idea of fitting out a quadcopter with a defibrillator to create what is believed to be the world’s first ‘drone ambulance.’ Delft Technical University student Alec Momont says his specially equipped flying machine could potentially save the lives of thousands of people hit by heart attacks thanks to its ability to reach victims in super-fast time. Weighing 4kg and reaching speeds of up to 100 km/h (60 mph), Momont says that installing a network of the first-aid quadcopters across a city would give someone suffering a cardiac arrest an 80 percent chance of survival, up from around 8 percent today. youtube/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc Read more: digitaltrends/cool-tech/check-out-the-ambulance-drone-that-could-one-day-save-your-life/#ixzz3KumDAt3J Follow us: @digitaltrends on Twitter | digitaltrendsftw on Facebook
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:38:15 +0000
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