Originally Posted by
abgd
The big difference here is that blood is replaceable - apart from a few rare blood groups you just take another armful. Organs are much scarcer. Eventually I'm sure drones will become reliable enough for the purpose though.
True. Although in these circumstances prompt delivery by drone makes the difference between life and death. But they are so far 'perfectly' reliable. After many 1,000s of deliveries, last time I asked, not a single vehicle had been lost or delivery failed.
Originally Posted by
ChickenHouse
Fully automated drones with impact injection? Fancy idea!
Hoho. Maybe not as crazy as you might think. The payload is dropped by parachute and routinely hits within a couple of meters of the target. So we are kind of moving in that direction - already working on dropping vaccines in pre-loaded syringes! Maybe not a huge step to make them MIRVs!