Self Driving and Self Diagnosing: With Emerging Technology, Your Car May Soon Serve Not Only as Personal Chauffeur and Entertainment Center but as a Health Advisor Too

Advances in automobile technology have made headlines over the last few years, and not always for good reasons. In March 2018, an Uber self-driving car ran over a pedestrian in Arizona-the latest in a handful of casualties tied to automated car systems. Despite such tragedies, however, cutting-edge technologies in cars may prove beneficial for people?s health overall. In 2016, a driver who suffered a pulmonary embolism while on the road credited the autopilot features of his Tesla Model X with saving his life: the car managed to navigate the 20 miles to the nearest hospital during the incident.