Every ambulance that goes out represents a massive waste of
potential: it doesn’t have any passengers! Ambulances need space to
transport people on the return trip, and it really says something
about humanity that we’ve gone so many years with that capacity
completely idle on the outward journey. It would be one thing if we
were talking about vehicles that travel normally across the
city—though of course I’d love to see more carpooling—but
these are high-speed vehicles! Traffic yields to open a path, they
don’t have to wait for stoplights, they’re the fastest way across the
city.
The reason we haven’t fixed this already is that it’s only recently
that smartphones have become widely available. Before, it would have
been too hard to connect travelers with first responders going their
direction within the narrow window between an alert coming in and a
vehicle going out. After, bypassing taxi supply cap regulations was a
larger market. But now, the time is ripe: introducing Ambolyft!
While our initial fleet is currently entirely ambulances, we’re
expanding to police as well. Great side hustle opportunity!
Improving Emergency Vehicle Utilization
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Every ambulance that goes out represents a massive waste of potential: it doesn’t have any passengers! Ambulances need space to transport people on the return trip, and it really says something about humanity that we’ve gone so many years with that capacity completely idle on the outward journey. It would be one thing if we were talking about vehicles that travel normally across the city—though of course I’d love to see more carpooling—but these are high-speed vehicles! Traffic yields to open a path, they don’t have to wait for stoplights, they’re the fastest way across the city.
The reason we haven’t fixed this already is that it’s only recently that smartphones have become widely available. Before, it would have been too hard to connect travelers with first responders going their direction within the narrow window between an alert coming in and a vehicle going out. After, bypassing taxi supply cap regulations was a larger market. But now, the time is ripe: introducing Ambolyft!
While our initial fleet is currently entirely ambulances, we’re expanding to police as well. Great side hustle opportunity!
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