Land Rover is using
the Paris Motor Show to introduce a one-off Discovery which has been created
for the Red Cross. Inspired by the Project Hero concept, the Red Cross
Discovery Emergency Response Vehicle was developed as part of an 18-month
collaboration between the Austrian Red Cross and Land Rover Special Vehicle
Operations.
Designed to save
lives in a disaster situation, the Discovery has been transformed into a mobile
command center which can travel to remote locations. Since lives are on the
line, the model has been outfitted with a state-of-the-art communications
technology and four radio antennas.
The coup de grace
is an eight-rotor drone which has been equipped with a long-range thermal
imaging camera. Land Rover says the camera can spot people from 440
meters away and vehicles from nearly 1,000 meters.
The footage can be
monitored from touchscreens and the drone can track objects and pin-point their
precise location with a few simple taps. This information could potentially
mean the difference between life and death.
Besides the drone
and the pull-out command center, the Discovery has emergency lights, a roof
rack and black wheels with meaty tires. The model also comes equipped with an
assortment of radios and a 3.0-liter diesel engine that develops 254 hp.
