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Getting paramedics to a site of an injury can often be challenging if the stricken person is on top of a cliff, in a forest, or some other hard to reach place.

With the demonstration of a versatile medical drone in Bolton, Mississippi to the state’s governor and officials from the Federal government and United Nations, we finally catch a glimpse of the future of emergency medicine. Boasting an array of medical equipment, this drone adopts features from its primitive predecessors while also adding features of its own.

Most notably, the HiRO (Health Integrated Rescue Operations) drone features a live video feed from the site of the emergency directly to a medical doctor still in the hospital. Allowing for the deputizing of average citizens to act in the place of a doctor, HiRO cuts down the time it could take to receive medical attention tremendously.

The video below depicts a possible scenario that warrants the use of a HiRO drone. These drones would first be staged to fly in areas where EMT medical response time is the highest, but ideally HiRO’s will eventually cover 100% of the population.

#Hiro #dorne #emergency #emt #livecam #medical #drone

It's good news for rescuers who can't wait for life-saving supplies.

Similar to the previously article about drones being adorned with a defibrillator, John Hopkins researchers have just deemed to safe for large bags of blood to be transported via drone. As long as the blood temperature is kept monitored in a cooler during transport it will remain chemically and hematologically stable.

This important discovery comes as reassuring news for those who live or work in rural areas where medical attention can be miles away. Blood must remain under standardized conditions for the entire time leading up to a transfusion, making drone transport especially useful in areas where other ‘blood-carrying-capable’ vehicles cannot reach in a timely manner -or at all.

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Despite a new Illinois law prohibiting the use of drones to interfere with hunting, PETA says it is going forward with a plan to catch illegal hunters via unmanned vehicles.

Contrary to my suspicion that animal rights groups would be outspoken for the regulation of drones to prevent the harassing of wildlife, instead, PETA actually planned to use drones to protect animals. However, in 2013 the passing of a new law in Illinois by Gov Pat Quinn criminalizing the use of unmanned drones to interfere with someone’s hunting or fishing made their plans illegal.

The law was passed after public outcry by hunting advocates, who threatened to shoot down invasive PETA drones intent on exposing unethical or illegal hunting practices such as drunk-hunting or shooting game from the side of the road. PETA lawyer Jared Goodman pointed out that the law prohibits interfering with “lawful” hunting activities, however the PETA drones are intended to film only “illegal” hunting practices.

This controversy stands as an example of one of the ethical issues regarding drones, rather than the more publically reported legal or safety issues we hear about weekly. The term “drone ethics” certainly is not a new one with most concerns regarding the invasion of privacy. As more laws and regulations surface, you can count on more and more of them to be addressing ethics issues.

#PETA #drone #llinois #law #hunting #ethics

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9QNf0sCFI)

An interesting interpretation here on how wildlife responds to drones. Jeanne Moos takes a lighthearted stance on the subject, calling drones “an expensive dog toy” and providing many clips of seemingly harmless animal interaction.

Some do not hold the same opinion as Moss, denouncing the harassment of wildlife with these noisy, unnatural habitat-invaders. Several states already have legislation regarding drone interaction with animals:

Idaho SB 1213 prohibits the use of [drones] for hunting, molesting or locating game animals, game birds and furbearing animals.

Wisconsin SB 338 prohibits using a drone to interfere with hunting, fishing or trapping.

These laws are in place primarily to prohibit drone use based on the perceived advantage it gives man over live game while hunting, yet I believe it wont be long before even more regulations are developed in association with animal rights.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/current-unmanned-aircraft-state-law-landscape.aspx

A drone narrowly avoided crashing into a passenger plane flying over central London in July. Alongside the CNN article detailing the incident is a very interesting video regarding the research currently being conducted on behalf of the FAA.

Growing up with a pilot for a dad, I have always known that planes are fairly durable in regards to bird strikes. The 2009 Hudson river landing executed by Captain Chelsey Sullenberger was an abnormal occurrence as an flock of migrating Canadian geese simultaneously destroyed both engines.

Most bird strikes on passenger planes involve only one bird, and often times the striking bird is much smaller than geese are, growing up to 14 pounds each. The armor on the average airliner can withstand bird impacts of up to about 8 pounds, according to Maj. Gen. James O Poss.

In the video, he details the goal of the FAA: To see whether or not drone strikes are similar to bird strikes. Using computer generated models of the DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter, the most popular consumer drone, and smashing into aircraft grade aluminum, the FAA is currently gathering as much data as possible in order to learn more about this 21st century flying machine.

#drone #srtike #bird #birdstrike #plane #faa #airliner #strike #djiphantom

17 states have passed 31 pieces of legislation regarding private and non-private use of drones. What are the laws like in your state?

Here is a useful link to a compilation of all of the government passed legislation on drone use in the United States so far. As we all know, there is still much more to come so I will be keeping this content updated in the comment section as things change.

#drone #law #legislation

Two mainland tourists are facing a fine of up to NT$1.5 million (US$47,148) after they were accused of crashing a drone in a restricted zone in Taipei, injuring a Taiwan woman. The incident took place at the Ningxia Night Market on Saturday night, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. The woman was walking with her…

This week, the crash of a consumer drone in a specifically no-drone zone in Taipei injures a grandmother walking with her 1 year old grandson. The boy was left unharmed, but that didn’t stop his mother --also Taipei City Counselor-- Yen Ruoh-fang to post these images of her mother on Facebook.

While drone airspace regulation is exclusively decided by the government of whatever country you find yourself in you must remain aware and informed. For drone use regulations in the US, the laws are readily and easily available on the NCSL website.

The "near miss" that caused a Porter airlines plane to take evasive maneuvers, injuring two crew members, turns out not to have involved a drone after all.

UPDATE on a story posted previously on The Drone Zone page:

Investigators concluded that it was likely a near miss with a balloon instead of a drone in the incident earlier this month involving a 54 passenger Canadian airliner. Even though the unidentified object was not originally suspected to be a drone per the pilots reports, the “viral” nature of drones in pop culture has brought them to the forefront of public attention. Growing paranoia regarding drone-aircraft traffic has also prompted newspapers to adopt these attention grabbing headlines.

#tsp #ifyourmothertelllsyousomethingchechitout

A MAJOR air disaster was narrowly avoided over London when a drone came within a whisker of colliding with a passenger jet near The Shard. The Airbus 320, with around 165 passengers on board, was m…

There are dozens of these types of near misses reported to the UK Airport Board each month, however this incident marks the 3rd consecutive day that near misses have occurred near Heathrow International Airport.

#heathrow #london

I was the third drone near miss in consecutive days involving airliners coming in to land at Heathrow.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2200187/major-air-disaster-narrowly-averted-over-london-after-drone-nearly-collides-with-passenger-plane-near-the-shard/

It happened during Wednesday night's protest.

According to Philadelphia Magazine, the drone operator has been charged with aggravated assault, causing or risking catastrophe, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person. Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/11/17/drone-arrest-philadelphia/#kPzHZKLw0PoLB1mT.99

From a high-rise rooftop on the west side of the Schuylkill, a 20-year-old Drexel University student allegedly operated a flying camera drone recklessly all the way to the Ben Franklin Bridge, and it nearly collided with a police helicopter Wednesday evening.

Joseph Roselli was arrested after his drone almost struck a police helicopter’s windshield that was patrolling the Pres-Elect Trump protests in downtown Philly on Nov 17th. Specific violations with the FAA could include flying a drone outside of the operators direct line of sight, flying over groups of people, and flying above 400 feet.

Yesterday, a Porter Airlines flight had to maneuver in order to avoid a low-flying object, which could have been a drone.

While it still remains unclear as to whether or not the object being avoided was in fact a drone or something else -like a balloon, it once again stirs up conversations about how the airspace frequented by low flying aircraft be monitored by the FAA.

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Lifeguards and rescue crews around the world are starting to consider drones to be life-saving equipment. These flying robots can quickly deliver flotation devices drowning victims, saving time and reducing panic.

Similar to the Drone Ambulance ( https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mo8aj_ambulance-drone-a-flying-defibrillator-that-can-save-hundreds-of-people-having-heart-attack_news ) this drone has been outfitted with a compact floatation device deployment system.

It could cost you upwards of $32,000 in fines.

FAA preemptively warns Florida drone-owners to refrain from flying over Matthew’s ‘ground zero.’

One might call to question the newly introduced ability of drones to save someone's life, however this is just one of the many life changing applications of drone’s in the future. The UK is developing a drone ‘ambulance’ that can reach people with cardiac arrests within minutes. Think of all the other possible emergency scenario applications like delivering epinephrine to someone having an allergic reaction, or anti-venom to someone bitten by a poisonous snake.

Drones are even useful during non-medical emergencies such as a police drone showing up first to the scene to respond to a home invasion, scaring off the attackers and gathering immediate video evidence of any crimes being committed. Better yet, the drone can follow the criminals even when police physically can’t, so escaping the law will be nearly impossible.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJu4kmcy8gQ)

Here you can see just how dangerous falling drones can be in this near miss of a skier last December.

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