Tesla Autopilot saves a man’s life by driving him to the hospital, by news.com.au.

An event this week has proved Tesla’s Autopilot feature can actually be extremely beneficial in emergency situations.

Joshua Neally had purchased a Model X and had grown to cautiously trust the Autopilot feature during his 45 minute commute to work in Missouri. …

The lawyer was only 8km from his office when he felt a pain in his abdomen. He immediately called his wife and they decided it was best he go to the emergency room, this is one of the last moments of the drive he remembered.

The 37-year-old curled over in pain in the driver’s seat, as the vehicle’s software navigated itself to a hospital just off an exit ramp, some 32 km down the highway.

Doctors later told Mr Neally he was lucky to survive, as he had suffered a pulmonary embolism — a potentially fatal obstruction of a blood vessel in his lung.

hat-tip Matthew