This handout picture made available on March 30, 2020 by Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT shows a member of SEAT's medical service checking a ventilator manufactured at the company's plant in Martorell.
As hospitals around the world face a surge of patients with breathing difficulties from Covid-19, the scarcity of ventilators has forced doctors to make life-or-death decisions. He ultimately used a 1950s law concerning defence production to force one of GM's plants to make ventilators. The proposed model, which uses the adapted motor of a windscreen wiper, is already undergoing testing with the hopes of gaining formal approval from health authorities, Seat said in a statement.
The team says it could manufacture some 1,000 units a day with the help of six other UK-based F1 teams which have committed to help build the devices. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a non-profit organisation founded after the creation of the atomic bomb and which is known for its symbolic "Doomsday Clock," said in a recent article that car manufacturers are not best placed for assembling medical equipment.