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Ford’s Bluecruise is far more limited than autopilot. It’s geo-fenced to some freeways.[1] Autopilot works on any road with lane markers. My guess is that few F

• moralestapia 4y ago
  What a strange comment, It seems like you're trying to make a point for Tesla but the arguments you present make Blue Cruise seem like a more carefully planned and safer technology, lol.
  • ggreer 4y ago
    I'm saying that almost nobody uses Bluecruise because it's a gimmick. It only works in a few places. In the places where it is supported, it refuses to turn the wheel too sharply, forcing you to turn in areas where there is a significant bend in the road. If you make your feature so useless that nobody uses it, of course that feature won't cause many deaths. The useful metric is deaths per distance traveled regardless of whether automation is on or not. Otherwise you can Simpson's Paradox yourself into any conclusion.
• MBCook 4y ago
  I promise you they use the feature. It’s quite nice. People want it enhanced, but it is useful. But as a sibling comment pointed out it’s limited for a reason. It’s carefully locked to areas Ford has mapped and verified and believes the software/hardware is capable of performing safely. It will disengage for anything more complicated. Tesla’s “you can run it almost anywhere, good luck” attitude could easily help explain a large chunk of the discrepancy. The Ford won’t engage where it’s unlikely to work while AP very well might.