{"id":237707,"date":"2016-08-09T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=237707"},"modified":"2016-08-09T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T06:56:11","slug":"tesla-car-drives-owner-to-hospital-after-he-suffers-pulmonary-embolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=237707","title":{"rendered":"Tesla car drives owner to hospital after he suffers pulmonary embolism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US driver made it to hospital while suffering a pulmonary embolism after putting his car into autopilot.<\/p>\n

Joshua Neally was driving his Tesla Model X home from his office in the US city of Springfield, Missouri, to nearby Branson.<\/p>\n

But after pulling onto the highway, he started suffering piercing pain in his stomach and chest.<\/p>\n

Rather than call an ambulance, the lawyer decided to find a hospital using his car’s self-driving mode.<\/p>\n

\"Tesla<\/div>\n

Around 20 miles (32km) down the road, the 37-year-old’s Tesla arrived at the road leading to the hospital emergency department.<\/p>\n

He told Slate that he manually steered the electric vehicle in to the car park and checked himself in to the emergency room.<\/p>\n

A pulmonary embolism is a potentially fatal obstruction of a blood vessel in the lungs.<\/p>\n

Doctors say he was lucky to survive it while driving.<\/p>\n

\"Joshua<\/p>\n
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Joshua Neally says he decided to use autopilot to get to a hospital after talking to his wife on the phone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Tesla’s autopilot, which automatically changes lanes and reacts to traffic, is under the microscope in America after it was involved in two crashes.<\/p>\n

A man died in Florida after the driver-assist function in his Tesla Model S failed to detect a lorry in its path in May.<\/p>\n

\"Crashed<\/div>\n

Then last month a driver was unhurt after his Model X car crashed after swerving to hit wooden rails next to a two-lane road in Montana.<\/p>\n

The electric carmaker suggested that the function wasn’t being used correctly at the time of the second accident.<\/p>\n

The use of the technology is being investigated by the US road safety watchdog, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n

\"Tesla<\/div>\n

But Joshua Neally says he was happy to use the autopilot function and thinks it will save lives.<\/p>\n

“I’m very thankful I had it for this experience,” Joshua told local news station KY3.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A US driver made it to hospital while suffering a pulmonary embolism after putting his car into autopilot. Joshua Neally was driving his Tesla Model X home from his office in the US city of Springfield, Missouri, to nearby Branson. But after pulling onto the highway, he started suffering piercing pain in his stomach and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}