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Italian police use Lamborghini to transport donor kidney 300 miles in two hours

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Re: Italian police use Lamborghini to transport donor kidney 300 miles in two hours

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Post by lostlogin »

1024core wrote: post #13
innocenat wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s a pretty solid use of a supercar, although folks on Twitter have wondered why Italian officials didn’t just use a helicopter to transport the kidney. A Google Maps view of the Policlinico Universitario in Padua, the starting hospital, doesn’t seem to show a helipad or an easily accessible flat area nearby, so a Lamborghini likely made the most sense here. It's in the article.

There's this soccer field, which is about 600ft away from the hospital. https://goo.gl/maps/fVNDsTCvrrArVn5i7

As per the article, that was too far away so a lambo made the most sense. So much ridiculous here.

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Post by Hamuko »

dvdbloc wrote: post #8

How is it possible to maintain an average speed that high on public roads? Even if you had lights on, you’d come up on people so quickly they wouldn’t be able to get over fast enough. And surely they had to stop for fuel at least once unless they have some special gas tanks fitted? Seems difficult

>Even if you had lights on, you’d come up on people so quickly they wouldn’t be able to get over fast enough.

This isn't the US. People aren't driving on the left lane just because they can.

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Post by ueiejdjddiiw »

smabie wrote: post #16

This is so unbelievably stupid and highly doubt there is any legitimate reason for police officers to have supercars in their fleets. This is clearly a cross waste of money, is dangerous, and totally pointless. Just use a helicopter and as another poster noted, there's totally fine place a helicopter could land close to the hospital. The Italian people should be outraged at this profligate (and self serving) waste of…

Police sometimes use confiscated vehicles as police cars if they can't sell them at an auction.

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

smabie wrote: post #16

This is so unbelievably stupid and highly doubt there is any legitimate reason for police officers to have supercars in their fleets. This is clearly a cross waste of money, is dangerous, and totally pointless. Just use a helicopter and as another poster noted, there's totally fine place a helicopter could land close to the hospital. The Italian people should be outraged at this profligate (and self serving) waste of…

I wouldn't be so sure, helicopters are insanely expensive. Not just to buy and fuel, but to maintain. They basically need to be completely rebuilt and every part inspected, after a certain number of operating hours. From what I can Google, that number of hours in usually in the low thousands.

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Post by ce4 »

dvdbloc wrote: post #8

How is it possible to maintain an average speed that high on public roads? Even if you had lights on, you’d come up on people so quickly they wouldn’t be able to get over fast enough. And surely they had to stop for fuel at least once unless they have some special gas tanks fitted? Seems difficult

The actual average driving speed was even higher, the car must have refueled at least once ( no way they get a reach of 460km at that speed with one filling) and also the non highway parts of start/end drag the average down quickly. My guess is at +280kmh (175mph) driving speed most of the time on the highway to make up for that. In times of covid and partial lockdowns it's not unusual to have empty highways (depending on the time window this happened). In germany you can definitely average 230km/h (140mph) when the Autobahn is empty, eg. at night. Conditions need to be perfect though (almost no traffic, weather, powerful car and a fit driver). Maybe they changed seats after refilling.

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Post by chmod775 »

dvdbloc wrote: post #8

How is it possible to maintain an average speed that high on public roads? Even if you had lights on, you’d come up on people so quickly they wouldn’t be able to get over fast enough. And surely they had to stop for fuel at least once unless they have some special gas tanks fitted? Seems difficult

On highways in Europe it is illegal to pass on the right, meaning that the fastest-going vehicles are supposed to be in the leftmost lane. On top of that you're supposed to switch back into the right-hand lanes if they're empty.

Taken together this means that you can generally go pretty fast in the leftmost lane.

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Post by throwaway546456 »

rhinoceraptor wrote: post #25
smabie wrote: post #16

This is so unbelievably stupid and highly doubt there is any legitimate reason for police officers to have supercars in their fleets. This is clearly a cross waste of money, is dangerous, and totally pointless. Just use a helicopter and as another poster noted, there's totally fine place a helicopter could land close to the hospital. The Italian people should be outraged at this profligate (and self serving) waste of…

I wouldn't be so sure, helicopters are insanely expensive. Not just to buy and fuel, but to maintain. They basically need to be completely rebuilt and every part inspected, after a certain number of operating hours. From what I can Google, that number of hours in usually in the low thousands.

why not use a gyrocopter then? It's cheaper, easier to maintain and more safe. Even if they are not that fast you don't have to get stuck in traffic jam, wait on traffic lights in the city and can flight directly with straight line from A to B.

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Post by CapriciousCptl »

Assuming this is real, it is absolutely reckless and just not needed for kidneys. They can stay on ice for 24 hours or longer. Nobody ever needed an emergency kidney transplant, thanks to dialysis. Even if a helipad wasn’t on the hospital any clearing would do. And if the weather was too poor you use an ambulance or special transport going at a safer speed, which would still get there with time to spare.

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Post by aledalgrande »

smabie wrote: post #16

This is so unbelievably stupid and highly doubt there is any legitimate reason for police officers to have supercars in their fleets. This is clearly a cross waste of money, is dangerous, and totally pointless. Just use a helicopter and as another poster noted, there's totally fine place a helicopter could land close to the hospital. The Italian people should be outraged at this profligate (and self serving) waste of…

It is a known fact that Lamborghini gifted the car specifically for this use, it was not payed with tax money.
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