Except with an important difference: There aren't a bunch of people out there busy claiming their cars literally have volition.

If people start doing that, it changes the stakes, and "bringing" stops being a safe metaphor that everyone collectively understands is figurative.

Nobody’s* claiming that. People are being imprecise with language and others are imagining the claim and reacting.

* ok someone somewhere is but nobody in this conversation

I think what he's saying is that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and eats bread then it doesn't matter if it's a robotic duck or not because it is in all practical ways a duck. The rest is philosophy.