Regulator Investigates Ford's Hands-Free Driving System After Fatal Crashes
Source: Wall Street Journal
U.S. auto-safety regulators have launched an investigation into the safety of Ford Motors hands-free driving system, following a pair of recent crashes that left three people dead.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the auto industrys top regulator, said in a filing made public Monday that it had received notice of two recent incidents involving BlueCruise, Fords driver-assistance system.
In both cases, Ford Mustang Mach-E SUVs collided with stationary vehicles on highways during nighttime lighting conditions, each resulting in a fatality, NHTSA said.
NHTSAs Office of Defects Investigation confirmed that BlueCruise was engaged in each of the vehicles in question immediately before the collisions, according to an initial review by the agency.
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Arne
(2,342 posts)orleans
(34,147 posts)because people didn't want to "drive" while driving their fucking cars??
Aussie105
(5,584 posts)Driving a dumb car knowing you need to concentrate, turn the steering wheel and work the pedals?
Or driving some smart car, expecting it to do things for you, but needing to be super alert just in case it gets it wrong?
Don't want to drive? Get a Taxi, an Uber, public transport for crying out loud! Sit back, chill out, read a book or something.
Or tell Jeeves to tell the driver to bring the Rolls around the front, so you can sit in the back and raid the cocktail bar.
I like cars. I like computers.
Mating them together in a thing on wheels, not so much.
Aussie105
(5,584 posts)I remember a few decades ago a certain make and model of small car (*) was known to catch fire in a rear end crash.
Something about the fuel tank rupturing in a crash.
That car was taken off the market, never to return.
How many people need to die before the self-drive aspect of some modern cars is legislated out of existence?
Or manufacturers stop offering the feature?
(*) "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigated rear-end collisions involving 1970-76 Ford Pintos and Mercury Bobcats resulting in fuel spillage and fire. NHTSA concluded that 27 Pinto occupants had died in these crashes and a further 24 Pinto occupants sustained non-fatal burn injuries."
radicalleft
(482 posts)I like it personally