Man says Tesla Autopilot saved his life by driving him to the hospital
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And what a tragic story it would have been if he had become unconscious along the way, the car stopping somewhere on the side of the road and it takes too long to find and help him.
Private enterprise, trying to maximize profit. Public services, trying to minimize costs. Mostly works.
This form of socialist self insurance is much more efficient than a bunch of private ambulance companies selling subscriptions (aka "ambulance insurance").
The dysfunction you describe seeing and that I've seen are same coin, different sides.
The USA is nowhere to being as bad as a typical communist country.
I agree, but we still have a long way to go to being as good as other first world countries, like Canada, England, and the Nordic systems.
I'm somewhat surprised you think you live in a country (I assume you're in the US) that everyone gets care regardless of their financial circumstances.
It's only ignorance that would make a US citizen think that it's better than the rest of the world, except third world countries.
Cancer drugs are priced at the maximum cost that the US health system will bear.
You can thank your politicians for being in the pocket of the drug companies.
"He's having a heart attack, should we call an ambulance? Nah, shove him in his Tesla and set a route for the hospital, they'll sort it out there".
Having more ways to get somebody to the hospital is better than having less of them.
It's just like with knifes. Yes, some people will find a way to hurt themselves using them, but that's not really a good argument to get rid of them.
If he was having a serious cardiac issue, who's to know if the ER that he pulls into has a cardiac cath lab or really, anything above suturing and simple obstetrics services. Different hospitals have different capabilities. That's what worries me about this whole thing.
We've had stories here about people thinking their friend was having a heart attack, so they were speeding down the highway at twice the speed limit to try to get to a hospital. What the driver didn't know was that he had passed up two different ERs with higher levels of care than the hospital he was speeding to.
I still prefer people pull over and call 911.
Seriously, this is the worst kind of strawman, pretending reading about a single case of something will change how people behave in an emergency.
The main characteristic of established protocols in the event of an emergency are that they are supposed to be reliable and not require complex computation on the part of the user.
I doubt any sane person (simple metric: those who would call the ambulance instead of driving the person to the hospital in current times), would be more likely to use the autopilot feature instead of calling an ambulance.
Yes there will always be dumb people till posterity, but to claim people are more likely to abuse the feature than current rates is nonsense.
I'm picturing an unconcious guy arriving in a car and expiring in the car outside the hospital.
I wonder if the paramedics do some of the work and notetaking a triage nurse would do in a crowded ER. They certainly have a lot of that stuff ready to hand off when they roll into the ER.
It's odd, in a way. In the area I live the hospitals typically say that walk-ins get the same level of priority in the triage process as patients driven in by EMS but no one who is not employed by a hospital's PR department would agree with that.
There is no truth to this whatsoever. Totally false. I'm a Paramedic, and I still see people claiming this. Sorry, but if you call 911 because you tripped over a rug and your ankle hurts, it's likely that you're going to get wheeled right through the ER and out into the waiting room.
You can't believe much of what you see on the Internet. Though the majority seem to ... so much crap is made up for pageviews and in this case for the better of Telsa's AutoPilot program/bottom line.
It still might be faked, but there are many more who would gain something from fakng th without having massive downside like Tesla.
Though I might need to turn it off some as it makes me think Trump is Clinton's puppet to ensure her win. The stuff he says and she isn't likable, yet it's crazy man or queen Clinton.
Probably from autopilots in planes which drive themselves.
Most commenters here are commenting like you give it the destination and it drives you, but, as far as I know, the car does no such thing. Title should be changed "Tesla saved man's life by keeping him from crashing when he couldn't drive well", but that's not as inviting.