Cruise control can only engage when already going over a certain speed. The car in this case could only go if someone hits the gas pedal.

That requires an education system that hasn’t been forced into failing generations of people.

That and they’ve started learning from their own garbage output which is leading to more garbage output.

Any time I’ve had a key stuck like this I’ve used something sharp and just stabbed it down into the top of the key and leveraged it against the lock itself. Keys are way softer than people think.