Bluecruise 1.2 Review and Comparison

[blazerdude20]

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1140916_ford-bluecruise-1-2-review

“As I passed a semi, I noticed that both the vehicle itself, and the image of the vehicle on the digital gauge cluster, scooched left and hugged the shoulder. Once past the semi the Corsair moved back into the center of the lane. This happened every time we passed a vehicle to varying degrees. Ford has now programmed the system to move over in the name of safety. “

 

[Captainp4]

Time and data, lots and lots of data, are what will make these systems work. Sprinkle in some AI and they'll get there eventually. I wonder if the automakers will license the Tesla software the way they caved on the charging standard or stick with their own systems? Good to see Ford making some progress on it though.

[tarheels23]

7 hours ago, Captainp4 said:

Time and data, lots and lots of data, are what will make these systems work. Sprinkle in some AI and they'll get there eventually. I wonder if the automakers will license the Tesla software the way they caved on the charging standard or stick with their own systems? Good to see Ford making some progress on it though.

there was a time before when everything that does now work it did not

[Flying68]

Dead thread revival, but having spent several hours now with our '24 Nautilus I can say when BlueCruise works it works well, but holy hell when BlueCruise is not available you are better off shutting off lane keeping and just drive manually.  The sensors can't cope with sunrise/sunset situations just like the article said.  The debounce time is way to short to the point you can't even take a drink or adjust something on the center stack without it bitching at you (it seems better with hands free active).  This is kind of ironic.  They move more and more stuff to the center stack which requires you to take eyes off (rather than tactile buttons and knobs) then have the safety systems go crazy when you actually have to look at said center stack.  It is extremely frustrating to be driving, looking straight ahead on the highway and have the thing yell at you to pay attention.  It is obvious that the system hasn't been tested by a large enough variety of operators in a large variety of conditions.  This is basic stuff that engineers should have seen in development.  Speed sign recognition is also hit or miss.  We have had several instances where the car will randomly decide it saw a sign that said 50, 30, even 5 mph (this one was while the wife was driving, scared the piss out of her, had to tell her just to hit the gas to overide because it aggressively slowed on an a turnpike), even when no sign existed.  Either these were nav database errors or it was reading something that wasn't a speed sign.  Also when it does legitimately read a sign, it doesn't always do the transition where it shows the current and the new and gradually slows.  We have also had several times where the GPS just freezes and the speed sign recognition just ceases to function at all.  Lane centering isn't great, it wanders a bit and tends to pull you towards the center line more than it should.  I don't see why on a two lane road or 4 lane highway it can't keep the vehicle biased to the shoulder side, or give you the ability to adjust the bias.