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BUSINESS US opens investigation into Ford crashes involving Blue Cruise partially automated driving system
news4jax ^ | April 29, 2024 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/29/2024 5:57:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN

DETROIT – Two fatal crashes involving Ford's Blue Cruise partially automated driving system have drawn the attention of U.S. auto safety regulators.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation of the crashes, both involving Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles on freeways in nighttime lighting conditions, the agency said in documents Monday.

The agency's initial investigation of the crashes, which killed three people, determined that Blue Cruise was in use just before the collisions.

One of the crashes occurred in February in San Antonio, Texas, killing one person, while the other happened in Philadelphia in March in which two people died.

The agency says the investigation will evaluate how Blue Cruise performs driving tasks as well as its camera based driver monitoring system.

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KEYWORDS: automotive; ford

1 posted on 04/29/2024 5:57:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Hands free highway driving. What could go wrong?


2 posted on 04/29/2024 6:09:49 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

Astonishing, ain’t it, how easily so many people place their very lives in the hands of technology? Paying attention to one’s environment is apparently something to be avoided in whatever world it is that they’re living in...


3 posted on 04/29/2024 6:22:39 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: V_TWIN

In the wake of the plandemic EUAs still being maintained as valid despite growing evidence of the jabs’ dangers and lethality...

...who’s surprised that the government hasn’t banned ‘autopilot’ or any other form of automated driving in the face of numerous deaths?


4 posted on 04/29/2024 6:23:40 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869; V_TWIN

It’s not a ‘bug’, it’s a feature!......................


5 posted on 04/29/2024 6:25:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: drwoof

Yes


6 posted on 04/29/2024 6:25:49 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: V_TWIN

There have been people doing hand free driving now for quite some time, in vehicles that have no automatic hand free driving equipment.

I’ve watched people using both hands to text while driving. It’s common to see a woman looking at that little vanity mirror on the sun visor, playing with her hair with one hand and on the phone with the other.

Back to the Ford fatalities. I suspect the biggest reason to use this Blue Cruise feature is to be perpetually on some device. I do not have sympathy for the deceased. Being on some device or not, the Darwin rule of survival of the fittest ruled again.


7 posted on 04/29/2024 6:29:21 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: V_TWIN

Stories like this completely undermine the delusional narrative that “self-driving cars” are anywhere close to reality.


8 posted on 04/29/2024 6:31:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: V_TWIN

No fully automated cars exist in US. You have to pay attention just as you do using cruise control.


9 posted on 04/29/2024 6:31:31 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

Yup.

Just ask Rahm.


10 posted on 04/29/2024 6:46:58 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: TornadoAlley3; Alberta's Child

A lot of people believe because they see it in a movie it’s possible......the movie I Robot comes to mind.

Common sense ain’t so common


11 posted on 04/29/2024 6:57:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: TornadoAlley3
No fully automated cars exist in US. You have to pay attention just as you do using cruise control.

Waymo driverless taxis:

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a45579237/waymo-driverless-car-ride/

12 posted on 04/29/2024 6:58:41 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

I think they are Level 4. Not Level 5.


13 posted on 04/29/2024 7:14:21 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: V_TWIN

It’s not Tesla, it’ll be brushed under the rug.


14 posted on 04/29/2024 7:39:34 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: PGalt

First they build EVs & discover they are selling at a loss, then they double down by building an autonomous setup? Sounds like they need some new deep thinkers at Ford. What could go wrong? A lot & possibly it already has. I worked in a Ford dealership most of my career life & always thought they would do well to fire a few engineers or “product planners” & replace them with capable technicians.


15 posted on 04/29/2024 8:14:28 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: V_TWIN

Just like the Soviet nuclear expert said at the Chernobyl hearings: “science requires victims”.

WHO are these people demanding this feature in a car??? The only use case I see is someone too old or infirm to drive might like to have this. It’s a total lack of imagination combined with hubris that makes people think that this selfmade problem can be solved “in a few years”.


16 posted on 04/29/2024 8:33:19 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: V_TWIN

these Driving Aids are just that, and only that.

I think the evidence shows that they are pretty decent at trying to drive.

In this case, 2 cars have crashed, but the details are sketchy.

How many E-mustangs have crashed when people were driving?

My cars have cruise control, but all they do is keep a constant speed, nothing more. would it be nice if they could keep a set following distance to the car in front of me, the distance depending on current speed yes.

regardless watching a movie or texting while trusting your car to drive itself is asking for a darwin award.

I do not jump out of perfectly good airplanes, but I know a girl who has made over 1000 jumps, She likes it and says it is perfectly safe.

In the back of my mind I can only assume she will go splat one of these days.


17 posted on 04/29/2024 8:36:55 AM PDT by algore
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To: The Antiyuppie

“selfmade problem”

You nailed it.....and EVs are a solution to a man-made problem that doesn’t exist IMO.


18 posted on 04/29/2024 8:45:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: redfreedom

Self driving cars don’t have to be perfect to be accepted. They just need to drive better than the average human.

Once that happens the government will mandate them. Even if they shouldn’t.


19 posted on 04/29/2024 9:01:44 AM PDT by sloanrb
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