TL;DR Autopilot did its job and got the driver to the hospital.
...he should've called an ambulance...
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He would have had to wait for an ambulance which could have been long enough to kill him. The safest way doesn't always save your life.
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I'm failing to see where the article specifies that. It just says he thought it'd be "quicker".
Calling an ambulance would've been better than risking taking other people out with him. He was putting other people in danger and he knew it.
Did autopilot save Neally? It’s hard to say. He acknowledges that, in retrospect, it might have been more prudent to pull over and call an ambulance. But the severity of what was happening dawned on him slowly, and by the time it had, he reckoned he could reach the hospital quicker via autopilot than ambulance.
The automation's all fine and dandy for saving him from going out of control when it all began but he should've pulled over immediately rather than becoming totally reliant on it for the journey. At that stage he was in no better a situation than the idiots that think autopilot means "I can start playing twister on the car roof because the car's driving itself now!". For fucks sake he might as well have been drunk.
Well, guess he saved himself an ambulance bill.
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I forgot how you people go about paying for being kept alive.
Yea about $600-1,000 for a trip.
You don't know what it's like in the US yet you go around preaching the way things should be done. Ambulance trip costs a minimum of $1k
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I had to go to the ER while on vacation one time. The trip costed about 400 bucks with insurance. Without it insurance it would have costed me like about $8,000. All they did was take blood samples and the doctor put his finger up my butt.
Yeah OK, whatever, I guess you must consider endangering the lives of whoever else was on the road at the time was worth the $600-1000 he saved!
You should be taking it out on your healthcare system not me.
The fuck's next, are women in labor going to start driving themselves to the hospital to save some dough too?
Not only that, but do you know how stupidly expensive an ambulance is? Lets just say that if you ever want to show-off your "baller" status, fuck a limo, have an ambulance drive you....
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Usually the husband drives them, it's not normal to call an ambulance for that.
Yep, thanks captain pedantic.
anytime Lieutenant Furball.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=driving+yourself+to+the+hospital
It worries me that you lot seem to be flippantly thinking of an ambulance as being just a hospital taxi. He'd get medical attention as soon as he got in the ambulance. That's the idea. Gives you first aid before you get there, plus, it's faster - they have sirens for a reason. So, it wasn't only negligent to himself and other people on the road because he was trying to operate a vehicle whilst injured, but he was also being negligent to himself by potentially postponing the medical attention he needed. Apparently putting people's lives at risk is worth not having to pay for the proper medical attention, boo hoo it's like that because you chose to have it that way.
I'm pretty sure what he did was illegal, and if it isn't it should be. You're all fine and dandy with it because the headline says the tech you're rooting for saved someone's life. It didn't. If anything it luckily saved everyone else's around him whilst he was being a twat and driving whilst unfit. I say luckily because the autopilot feature could have faltered and then there'd just be someone about as useful as a potato behind the wheel - if it had failed, in fact, you'd all be saying the exact same shit I'm doing right now - "He was treating the feature irresponsibly, what a moron", but nope, because he lucked out we're all happy clappy.
Germany is on the way of banning anything electronic from being used by the driver.
Is that the world you want?
I want a world where we can use electronic shit in cars but people do it responsibly.
My issue here is, and I'll reiterate, you're all fine and dandy with someone not because they lucked out.
"People" and "Responsible" do not mix, sorry.
Oh well I suppose we should just let everyone drink and drive now, too then! As long as they have autopilot!
Because "People" and "Responsible" just don't mix!
If anything that's the world you're going to give us if you think people abusing the autopilot feature by treating it like an ambulance supplement is OK! The reason they're thinking of doing that will partially be down to the fact people are using this shit irresponsibly! I have literally no idea how you could think this was responsible.