The GoAero prize contest was launched in February with the goal of spurring “a breakthrough solution to build the world’s first compact, autonomy-enabled rescue aircraft that is safe and simple to fly.” GoAero will award more than $2 million to the winners of the competition, and Honeywell Aerospace is the latest company to join the more than 30 sponsors of the prize.
GoAero CEO and founder Gwen Lighter launched the nonprofit “on a singular mission to save lives.” An experience where her father had to get rushed to the hospital due to chest pain brought home the issue of delays getting to the hospital. While following the ambulance to the hospital, roads clogged with traffic delayed the vital journey. “I remember saying over and over again, ‘Can you please move, can you please move?’” she recalled. “I wanted the roads to be clear so that my father could get to the hospital on time.” Her father did make it and survived, but as Lighter pointed out, “Every day, that happens thousands of times around the world.”
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