Let's have some good news about drones!
Jan. 22nd, 2022 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneA drone saves a man's life in Switzerland by delivering an automatic defibrillator!
71 year old man was shoveling snow when he had a heart attack and went into full cardiac arrest. A doctor just happened to be driving by and saw him collapse. He stops and starts performing CPR, calls to someone else to call the emergency number. Three minutes later, before an ambulance could get there, a drone flies overhead and drops off an AED!
The article from January 6 doesn't go into detail if the man recovered fully, but he certainly got lucky and sounds like his chances were good.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59885656
A dog was rescued by a drone carrying sausages!
The dog slipped her collar and ran off on January 13. She had been stuck out in tidal mud flats for two days and the tide was coming in. The flats were too tricky for people to come in and catch the dog, plus the dog was far too manouverable to be caught. Someone came up with the bright idea of cooking up a bunch of sausages, tying them on a line, then tying them to a bunch of drones!
They flew them near the dog and she started sniffing at them and chasing the drones and they lured her out of the mud flats. However, they still weren't able to catch her! She escaped and remained at large for another couple of days before she was caught on the 17th and reunited with her owner.
The pictures in the article are pretty cool.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/world/dog-sausage-drone-rescue-scli-intl-gbr/index.html
71 year old man was shoveling snow when he had a heart attack and went into full cardiac arrest. A doctor just happened to be driving by and saw him collapse. He stops and starts performing CPR, calls to someone else to call the emergency number. Three minutes later, before an ambulance could get there, a drone flies overhead and drops off an AED!
The article from January 6 doesn't go into detail if the man recovered fully, but he certainly got lucky and sounds like his chances were good.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59885656
A dog was rescued by a drone carrying sausages!
The dog slipped her collar and ran off on January 13. She had been stuck out in tidal mud flats for two days and the tide was coming in. The flats were too tricky for people to come in and catch the dog, plus the dog was far too manouverable to be caught. Someone came up with the bright idea of cooking up a bunch of sausages, tying them on a line, then tying them to a bunch of drones!
They flew them near the dog and she started sniffing at them and chasing the drones and they lured her out of the mud flats. However, they still weren't able to catch her! She escaped and remained at large for another couple of days before she was caught on the 17th and reunited with her owner.
The pictures in the article are pretty cool.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/world/dog-sausage-drone-rescue-scli-intl-gbr/index.html
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Date: 2022-01-22 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-22 11:55 pm (UTC)Nice!
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Date: 2022-01-23 12:55 am (UTC)Fascinating, but for rescue work, drones will never replace "man's best friend," especially when carried around the neck of a big shaggy dog.
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Date: 2022-01-23 02:24 am (UTC)A drone will certainly not keep you warm in an avalanche!
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Date: 2022-01-23 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
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