Ford Super Duty Driver Lies Down in Back Seat While Going 84 MPH on Cruise Control

Among the most dangerous new kinds of bad drivers are those that think self-driving cars exist. They've been mostly confined to Teslas so far, but it seems the delusion is contagious. Take this Ford Super Duty driver, who has filmed himself chilling in the back seat as the truck rolls down the highway at 80-something mph with nobody in the driver's seat, endangering everyone in the vicinity.

The video in question (mirror) was uploaded by Instagram user @__c.crawford__. Cameron James (or Crawford) is depicted lying down in the back seat of his 2023 or newer Ford F-450 Platinum crew cab, with nobody at the wheel or controlling the pedals. The video's caption reads «F450 driving itself,» which it definitely isn't designed or advertised to do.

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Ford offers multiple levels of driving automation, and hands-free BlueCruise is the company's premier automation tech. BlueCruise isn't self-driving though, as Ford emphasizes the driver must keep their eyes on the road. Ford uses a driver monitoring system to ensure this, and it'll deactivate if the vehicle suspects the driver is inattentive. (Even that hasn't been enough to prevent two fatal crashes involving BlueCruise though, which has the system under federal investigation.)

But the F-450 doesn't even have BlueCruise. The most advanced assist Ford offers on the Super Duty is a combination of adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping, which barely even register on the automation scale. They're designed to be used by a driver who's in control with their hands on the wheel, not some moron who thinks they can climb in the back seat. Ford tries to enforce this with pressure sensors on the steering wheel, but Tesla drivers have found a variety of ways to defeat them, and it seems Cameron here has, too.

Some Tesla drivers have filmed themselves doing this very thing as «pranks,» and it's feasible this guy is doing the same. Whether or not he's trolling is beside the point, because he's still proven himself too reckless to be trusted with a motor vehicle—especially an F-450. While overconfident tech bros in Teslas are bad enough, 8,000-pound F-450 crew cabs are even more dangerous