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Taxi-assisted Ambulance
As soon as issue address is known, taxi is dispatched at the same time, to pick up injured and drive towards approaching ambulance, nearly twice shortening help arrival times. | |
Usually, when ambulance is called, only the ambulance arrives. In this new
world,
taxi services develop a feature "pick up and chase", that allows to pick up a
passenger, and chase a moving target.
The hospitals and incidents managers could have an option then to
dispatch both
taxi and
the ambulance.
The abundance of taxis around cities would mean that arrival times could
be
shortened nearly two times.
Note: I could call it "Pick up and Chase" service, that's not limited to
ambulances, but the application for emergencies being the most obvious
and meaningful, just naming the idea that way.
Kessler syndrome
https://en.wikipedi...ki/Kessler_syndrome
" ... a cascade in which each collision ...increases the likelihood of further collisions." [8th of 7, Nov 12 2020]
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[hippo, Nov 12 2020]
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I'm not entirely sure that, following a serious
incident, I'd receive the best possible care by
having my bleeding, horribly injured body shoved
into
the back of a taxi by a stressed,
non-medically-trained cabbie who, I assume, would
still want to charge me for the journey and be
grumpy
if I didn't tip.
I suppose at
least you didn't suggest using Uber drivers.
//taxi is dispatched ... to pick up injured and
drive towards approaching ambulance// - I forsee a
sharp rise in the frequency of taxi/ambulance
crashes. |
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// rise in the frequency of taxi/ambulance crashes. // |
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Well, at least there will be an ambulance there to attend to the injured ... |
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It is possible to foresee a sort of automotive Kessler cascade, where a single taxi-ambulance collision initiates the immediate dispatch of additional ambulances and taxis to the scene, resulting in yet more crashes, more calls to the emergency services, and eventually all the available taxis and ambulances in the vicinity are piled up in a mangled heap of twisted metal, blood, detached body parts, and burning fuel. |
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Excellent, [marked-for-implementation], [+] |
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Yes, quite - similar to the scenario of grieving
relative carnage described in the linked idea |
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So, I picture an army of Agent Smiths all piling on top of the Neo. |
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// Excellent, [marked-for-implementation], [+] |
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Roger. Dispatching the busy bees to add moving target as destination
option to all major taxi apps. |
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Instead of a Motorbike and sidecar (seldom seen these days) how about a Motorbike & Side Stretcher? |
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Baked in WW2, by the Wehrmacht. The Luftwaffe version was unpopular with customers, and the Kriegsmarine version was disastrous, particularly with U-boats. |
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Double deck stretchers for multiple casualties? |
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// Double deck stretchers for multiple casualties // |
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Certainly; if you intend to cause multiple casualties, double-deck stretchers are an obvious method of achieving that outcome. It's not good news if you're already injured, though. |
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// it makes more sense to go all the way to hospital// - what about if
all taxi drivers were given several years of medical training? |
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We're still trying to work out a way of getting the (UK)* fire service involved ... getting taxis to transport the fire to the fire service instead of leaving it where it is, causing trouble. After all, the PIRA used to use hijacked taxis to deploy their IEDs. |
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*We are aware that in the USA, the paramedic service and the fire service are often one and the same. |
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