Driver stuck in snow uses drone to get cell service and send for help, US cops say

A driver stuck in snow attached his cellphone to a drone and sent it several hundred feet in the air to send a text message asking for help, the Lane County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue said in a Sunday, March 5, Facebook post. — Photo by Andreea Popa on Unsplash

A driver became trapped on a remote snowy road without any service, and no one knew where he was, authorities in Oregon said.

But he had a drone and a phone with some battery.