The NHS is going to use drones to fly blood samples across London to avoid the traffic.
Drone flights will mean the samples can be transported in a fraction of the time it currently takes couriers via road, officials said.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has launched a pilot scheme that intends to drastically speed up the time taken to move blood from major hospitals in the capital to labs for analysis.
Usually, moving samples between Guy’s Hospital and the lab at St Thomas’ Hospital takes more than half an hour on the road.
However, the same journey can be done in less than two minutes by drone, officials said.
The research team also said there were environmental benefits to the switch in transport methods.
you can make quieter drones, especially as the technology gets properly deployed like this and more research goes into it. Plus i’m sure they could come up with better routes that have it fly over areas where the noise affects people less, like fly it in an arc instead of having it hover a set distance from the ground.