Tesla Auto Pilot Safely Guides Pulmonary Embolism Victim To Hospital

On a balmy Tuesday afternoon in late July, 37-year-old attorney Joshua Neally left work early. He climbed into his new Tesla Model X to drive the 45 minutes from law office in Springfield, Missouri, to his house in Branson, Missouri. He was going home to celebrate his daughter’s fourth birthday.


He steered the electric luxury SUV into the gathering rush-hour traffic on Highway 68 and turned on autopilot, a feature unique to Tesla that allows a car to pilot itself—braking, accelerating, steering—for long stretches of freeway driving
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quizz - 8/8/2016 1:08:05 PM

+1 Boost

This is exactly when autonomous driving is a good thing. Bravo. Obviously, idiots will find way to break it and make it a hazard, but reasonable drivers who judiciously use autonomous driving have nothing to fear.

supermoto - 8/8/2016 6:06:14 PM

+4 Boost

So will the owner be ticketed for admitting that he was not in control of the vehicle for 20+ miles of high-speed driving? What if the car ran over someone or caused a fatal crash? The guy should have called 911 instead and taken an ambulance.

MDarringer - 8/8/2016 7:05:15 PM

-1 Boost

Tesla....Doing God's Work!

Calling 911 was the smarter move, but Tesla owners aren't that bright.

JRobUSC - 8/9/2016 12:17:58 AM

+2 Boost

My, what fortuitous and surely completely coincidental timing for Tesla. ??

SanJoseDriver - 8/9/2016 5:15:11 PM

+2 Boost

It killed one person who was speeding, not paying attention (potentially watching a movie), and driving on a freeway with perpendicular traffic (something you are not supposed to use Autopilot on). I would blame the driver and not Autopilot for that death (RTFM). If a car on Autopilot suddenly swerved off a cliff with no warning or opportunity to take back control, that's when you would chalk one up to the machines.