PARIS - The automotive industry is offering its expertise and manpower to the hospital sector as it gears up to build mechanical ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, an initiative that is being met with some scepticism.
Repurposing car factories for emergency production has drawn comparisons to World War II, when they were used to build tanks and fighter planes. He ultimately used a 1950s law concerning defence production to force one of GM's plants to make ventilators. The six-time world champion team built a less-invasive respiratory device in order to reserve ventilators - which require breathing tubes and sedation - for the most severely affected patients.
The"Project Pitlane" mission takes advantage of"the core skills of the F1 industry: rapid design, prototype manufacture, test and skilled assembly", F1 said in a statement.