Joshua Neally of Missouri bought a high-tech Tesla Model X a few weeks ago, and now he says it saved his life.
The SUV is completely electric, and it's full of cool tricks like the cutting-edge autopilot feature, which Neally calls the "ultimate cruise control."
It's not an autonomous car, but it will stay in its lane, maintain speed, even brake to avoid crashes. Neally says the car allows him to take his hands off the wheel for up to four minutes at a time. The car lets him know when he needs to take the wheel and if he doesn't, it looks for a spot to pull over and stop on the side of the road, reported KYTV.
Designed to avoid accidents, it's a controversial feature because many don't trust robots behind the wheel.
When Neally was driving home and began to have a pulmonary embolism, he could have died, but the Tesla kept him on the road until it got near a hospital where he was able to be treated in time to save his life.
"It's not going to be perfect, there's no technology that's perfect, but I think the measure is that it's better and safer," he says.
