Monday, August 8, 2016

OK, that would be a time I would take a self-driving car

Tesla drives man to hospital, saves his life:
A Missouri man says his Tesla helped saved his life by driving him to the hospital during a life-threatening emergency. 
Joshua Neally is a lawyer and Tesla owner from Springfield, Missouri, who often uses the semi-autonomous driving system called Autopilot on his Tesla Model X. 
The system has come under fire after it was involved in a fatal Florida crash in May, but Neally told online magazine Slate that Autopilot drove him 20 miles down a freeway to a hospital, while Neally suffered a potentially fatal blood vessel blockage in his lung, known as a pulmonary embolism. The hospital was right off the freeway exit, and Neally was able to steer the car the last few meters and check himself into the emergency room, the report said.
I don't like the lack of security in self-driving cars, but I like the idea of death even less.

2 comments:

SiGraybeard said...

I don't like the lack of security in self-driving cars, but I like the idea of death even less. If things work out the right (wrong?) way, you just could get both lack of security and death.

matism said...

And take several other people with you in the process, SiG!!!
}:-]

Now if they can only get those cars to scream:

Allahu Akbar!!!"