Fatal Crash Raises Questions About Hands-Free Driver Assistance System BlueCruise

The driver of a Ford Mustang Mach-E that crashed into a stationary car in Texas in February was using Ford's hands-free driver assistance system, BlueCruise, at the time of the crash.

This is the first known fatality involving a crash while BlueCruise was in use.

BlueCruise allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel on certain pre-mapped highways, but uses eye-tracking to monitor if drivers are paying attention.

This is the second crash being investigated where a Ford vehicle crashed into stationary cars while potentially using driver assistance systems.

Questions have been raised about whether Ford's system, like Tesla's Autopilot, has issues detecting and avoiding stationary objects in the road.