Your framing of the issues seems so far removed from the rest of the discussion that I can only assume I’m misunderstanding your point. Could you elaborate?
They sell self-heating canned food. It's not a claim about sapience.
That's the point, I'm arguing that human-level sapience is required. Even if you disagree, set aside the driving part; these machines must correctly interact with real (and adversarial) general intelligences.
And really, yes it is used that way in the marketing. It's not accidental.