The lawyer Joshua Neally says was driving from his office to his home in his car Tesla Model X when she began to feel a sharp pain in the chest and stomach.
I had just entered a highway, in the city of Springfield, Missouri, in the eastern United States.
Instead of calling an ambulance, Neally decided to go to the hospital using the autopilot in your vehicle .
After advancing 32 kilometers, the lawyer 37 he reached the road leading to the emergency unit of a hospital in Springfield.
Neally parked the electric car manually and recorded in emergencies, he told the online magazine Slate .
He was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, a fatal blockage of blood vessels in the lungs.
Doctors said he had been lucky to survive while on his way to be treated.
the autopilot Tesla, able to change lanes and react to traffic, has generated controversy in the US, after the function was involved in two accidents.
A man died in Florida in May after the vehicle autonomously to overlook a trailer that was before this.
In July a driver was unhurt after his model X veered sharply and crashed into a wooden railings on the edge of a track with two lanes in Montana, North US.
the automaker Tesla suggested that the role had not been properly used in the second accident.
the technology is being investigated by the federal department responsible for security on US roads (NHTSA).
But Joshua Neally feels fortunate to have been able to use the autopilot and believes that this technology can save lives.
“ i am very grateful for having used it for this experience “, Neally told local television KY3.
“If I fall unconscious or incapacitated when I am driving and not crash into anyone on the highways,” he said.
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