All of these self driving services are promising customers that they don't have to focus on driving. That's the entire premise of the service!
To then throw the customer under the bus when the inevitable occurs feels like fraud.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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Counterpoint: if you are stupid enough to trust Ford with driving your car, you get what you deserve.
Weird it reminds me of almost every other part of modern society.
I mean. Ford's blue cruise isn't supposed to marketed as self driving and it gives active warnings, including when you take your hands off the wheel to prevent you from trying to use them as a self driving equivalent where you aren't paying attention.
I agree that these features that are ostensibly to make driving safer are invasive and that they are being abused by people who do not take the warnings into affect or use them the way they are intended to be used, and I personally hate blue cruise.
I also agree that blue cruise enabled vehicles also have some pretty significant distractions included like giant touch screens and so on.
But I don't think it's fair to lable them as self driving when the company doesn't do that (looking at you Tesla who has repeatedly had to walk back such marketing claims).
Do I think blue cruise is a good product? No. Do I think it makes driving safer? Debatable as I'm sure that in some cases it can do that. Do I think it's a self driving system? No because it's not. It's basically just intelligent cruise control and lane keeping assist.
This is what a society based on perpetual economic War, does for us.
"Might is Right" is the common denominator for western capitalist ideology, and 'customers' is the 'Cattle' layer of that economic hierarchy.
It won't get any better..