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

Post by LinuxBender » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 3:23 PM UTC

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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.

Post by Scoundreller » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

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Definitely this was probably "fun" for the driver. But I do suspect something wasn't above board here. I know it was mentioned in the article, but the choice to not use a helicopter was... putting a lot of people at unnecessary risk. Which is pretty stupid since you're trying to save someone's life. Hopefully someone does this with a copter in the future.

It's a PR stunt. Roads are almost empty due to lockdown, it's the police and everyone in front will move far away, it's a fast highway track. Numbers have clearly been cooked so that both Lamborghini and the Police get media exposure. If they wanted to do it fast they'd have done it at night and without cameras.

Post by aledalgrande » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

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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.

You are wrong. In the U.K., which drives on the left and is in Europe, it is not expressly forbidden to undertake (pass on the left) anywhere, including motorways. This is independent from the legal requirement to remain in the left-most lane if possible. On designated one-way streets, and thus not on motorways, passing on either side is expressly allowed. Of course, reckless undertaking at high relative speed on the…

Post by denysvitali » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 5:35 PM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #83

tomcooks wrote: post #57

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It's a PR stunt. Roads are almost empty due to lockdown, it's the police and everyone in front will move far away, it's a fast highway track. Numbers have clearly been cooked so that both Lamborghini and the Police get media exposure. If they wanted to do it fast they'd have done it at night and without cameras.

> it's the police and everyone in front will move far away I’ve found in Europe (Germany, France, Croatia and Slovenia), drivers stay to the right unless passing. So the fast lanes will be fairly empty. Contract that with US/Canada where cars will merge from the on-ramp, switch 3 lanes to the left and camp in the fast lane at the speed limit. All without anything in front of them to warrant such action.

Post by denysvitali » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 5:39 PM UTC

lvturner wrote: post #38

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> 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.

From experience driving in Italy, people also watch out for traffic coming up behind them at speed and move over to let them past