{"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\/2016\/08\/tesla-car-drives-owner-to-hospital-after-he-suffers-pulmonary-embolism\/","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
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