"Ambulance Drone" Prototype Unveiled In Holland

schwit1 writes with news about a flying defibrillator designed by a Dutch student. A Dutch-based student on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of an "ambulance drone", a flying defibrillator able to reach heart attack victims within precious life-saving minutes. Developed by Belgian engineering graduate Alec Momont, it can fly at speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour (60 miles per hour). "Around 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the European Union every year and only 8.0 percent survive, the main reason for this is the relatively long response time of emergency services of around 10 minutes, while brain death and fatalities occur with four to six minutes,"

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A flying robot Tazer

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What could possibly go wrong?

Re:In San Francisco they could deliver buttplugs.

[ArcadeMan]

I guess that would be one way of stopping assholes.

Re:8.0 percent?

[dotancohen]

Sure hope that's a typo, or heart attacks are really fatal over there.

It's probably due to the conversion from metric. Notice how 100 KPH was rounded off to 60 MPH in the summary? The submitter rounded off whatever 8% in metric is.

The use of a decimal type instead of integer type was the key to figuring this one out.