Ambulance UK - June 2021

FEATURE
ONE FOR THE FUTURE?
Ahmed Zayed Radwan, Architect, Automotive Designer
ahmedzayed_85@yahoo.com, +86 186 16599656
Shanghai, China
TIME is crucial to emergency medical services. Increased response
time of ambulances to patients in crisis due to traffic congestion cause
thousands of deaths annually around the world. In the US, statistics
say that for a typical cardiac emergency, one minute of faster response
translates into $1,542 of savings in hospital costs per patient leading to
a $7B reduction in US healthcare expenditures per year, besides saving
thousands of lives.
The design comprises of two autonomous self balancing vehicles that
carry paramedics and all medical equipment needed, when they arrive
to destination of crisis the vehicles align by lidar feeds and start to
physically attach to each other (please watch in video) unfolding a fully
functional paramedic space to use. The lateral closures are designed
to double as doors and floor\roof panels to carry loads (reference
feasibility of pickup truck back doors to carry weight).
Emerge is an experimental autonomous concept aiming to address
the problem of increased response times by rethinking the ambulance
architecture laterally straitening its road footprint to cut through traffic
and pair to unfold paramedic space when in use.
EMERGE is a concept integrating the technologies of autonomous
mobility and self balancing technologies to help solve one of our major
problems in our modern time mega cities. It could potentially be a more
feasible alternative for helicopter and drone ambulances in terms of
operation costs and spatial requirements.
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