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Amazon Turned Drivers Into First Responders in Europe Experimentwww.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-10/amazon-turned-drivers-into-first-responders-in-europe-experiment
509 sats \ 5 comments \ @k00b 11 Apr tech
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The program’s most immediate objective would be to give everyone – not just Amazon customers – a better chance of surviving cardiac arrest, documents seen by Bloomberg show. Amazon vans tend to be closer than a professional first responder in many residential areas. A study by Philips included in the Amazon documents estimated that a fleet of 50 AED-equipped delivery vans on the roads of a north Seattle neighborhood would be able to respond more than a minute faster, on average, than emergency medical services.
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 11 Apr
That's... pretty cool actually.
Will Amazon stick to it if it causes some customers to complain about delayed delivery?
Will it make unreasonable demands on its drivers to not just be paramedics, but to also stick to a strict delivery schedule?
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 11 Apr
Seinfeld had this idea in 90s. Jerry: "Have the police carry brooms while they're standing around they can sweep up." Or something like that :)
Private services will always beat state run monopolies... At least that's my opinion. Now, not all first responders are state workers. Some are private already. Private security already outnumbers gov cops in the US. Most people don't realize this. The state limits their effectiveness.
I'll say this, if you think the outcry against police violence is loud now, if you saw a private company doing it they company would feel the impact and respond far faster than a government. Governments are much more resistant to public pressure. That's my view at least.
Regardless, I think we are headed to private security increase for those that can afford it and the poor get the crappy police that don't prevent crime but "respond". So the anti-free market people will end up getting what they claim will be the outcome of true free markets anyway.
I think in many areas we are seeing anarcho tyranny where people are punished for protecting their lives and properties and criminals are protected by the refusal of the state to enforce laws and protect "citizens".
The 2A movement needs to move towards framing the argument away from the Constitution and towards defense being the natural state of being a human. No one should be punished for defending themselves. Period. This goes beyond guns and any written document. It's basic common sense and the weak and women are the most at a loss when guns are banned or any tool to defend one's self.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 11 Apr
To much caffeine today ;) Sorry @k00b
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 12 Apr
This concept would probably work well with Uber drivers too! I love the creative thinking here.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 11 Apr
It sounds like a good idea, until you go through the legal aspects of it. What if the amazon driver does something wrong when hooking up the aed or life saving system?
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