http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tesla-model-x-autopilot-drives-us-man-hospital-after-he-suffers-pulmonary-embolism-1574977 Tesla Model X autopilot drives US man to hospital after he suffers pulmonary embolism Could a Tesla save your life? August 8, 2016 Jason Murdock
[image] Tesla Model X Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Motors Model X electric vehicle at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, Calif. on Feb. 9, 2012.REUTERS/David McNew A Tesla driver in the US has claimed his Tesla Model X helped save his life after the autopilot feature on the vehicle drove him to the hospital after he suffered a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism. Joshua Neally, 37, who told his story to Slate, described how his car allowed him to get to a hospital instead of having to pull over and wait for an ambulance to arrive at his location. Neally said he was driving the car home from his office in Springfield, Missouri, to nearby Branson when the health scare occurred. After pulling onto a busy highway, he started to suffer a piercing pain in his chest that left him incapacitated and "writhing in pain". However, rather than call the emergency services, he decided to get to the hospital using the Tesla self-driving mode. After travelling around 20 miles, Neally told Slate how he then manually steered the vehicle into the car park before seeking urgent treatment. "It was kind of getting scary. I called my wife and just said 'somethings wrong' and I couldn't breathe, I was gasping, kind of hyperventilating. I just knew I had to get there, to the ER," Neally told local news station KY3. "I'm very thankful I had it for this experience," he continued. "If something like that happens where I become unconscious or incapacitated while I'm driving, I'm not going to cross over the interstate and slam into somebody or slam into one of the big rock walls." Previously, the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, claimed that around half of the approximately one million people who died in car accidents in the US last year would have been saved if the Tesla Autopilot was universally available – which amounts to 500,000 people. In July, following the fatal crash of a Tesla Model S that was reportedly using the autopilot feature at the time of the collision, Musk claimed that 'significant updates' are now on the horizon that will ensure better self-driving sensor technology for users. Futhermore, despite being plagued by a number of crashes this year, Musk claimed his company is planning to release a technology that will "blow people's minds" while touting fully autonomous cars that will theoretically be capable of driving themselves in any situation. [© 2016 IBTimes] ... http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Self-driving-Tesla-SUV-saves-the-day-389392262.html Self-driving Tesla SUV saves Branson [MO] man's life Aug 06, 2016 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3729520/Autopilot-rescue-Tesla-s-self-driving-feature-saved-man-s-LIFE-helping-hospital.html Autopilot to the rescue! Tesla's self-driving feature may have saved a man's LIFE by helping him get to hospital 8 August 2016 SHIVALI BEST The driver in Missouri started feeling the effects of a pulmonary embolism He put the car in Autopilot, and it drove him 20 miles to the hospital Unclear whether pulling over for an ambulance would have been as fast ... Mr Neally was on his way home from work when he suffered a pulmonary embolism - a painful blockage of the artery in the lung. At the time, he was behind the wheel of his Tesla Model X, which features an autopilot mode. This allowed the car to take over for 20 miles (32km), bringing Mr Neally close to a hospital, before he finished the drive himself ... WHAT IS A PULMONARY EMBOLISM? A pulmonary embolism is a blockage in the pulmonary artery, the blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. This blockage – usually a blood clot – is potentially life-threatening because it can prevent blood from reaching your lungs. The symptoms of a pulmonary embolism can sometimes be difficult to recognise because they can vary between individuals. However, the main symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, and coughing ... [© dailymail.co.uk] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.0catch.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Tesla-X-EV-autopilot-saves-a-life-drove-to-hospital-after-his-pulmonary-embolism-tp4683241.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
