Reviews ford bluecruise handsfree8/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This is one of those features I’ve been hoping to see for a while on my Tesla Model Y. This feature was much more notable on the curvier Taconic parkway we took to Albany, where the car would drop 5-10 miles per hour of speed. But it did so in a way that was almost unnoticeable and just a few miles per hour. As I approached tighter turns, the car slowed down from its set speed. This one kind of crept up on me, and I’m pretty sure that’s a good thing. You can initiate this on your own as well, and in my testing, it worked reliably. The downside is that after you change lanes, you have to turn off the signal rather than it shutting itself off. You initiate it with the turn signal, and it works incredibly smoothly (especially compared to Tesla’s early efforts). If you come up to a car going much slower than yourself, BlueCruise will ask you if you want to do a lane change. The easiest and most common new feature is lane change. This happened at every on-ramp/exit for the next 30 or so miles, when it eventually stopped. If you look down for more than a few glances or cover your eyes, the car starts beeping, then proceeds to freak out with lights, sounds, and even braking events.Īs I left Albany, I put the car into BlueCruise and wasn’t alerted until the first turnpike exit, where the car requested I put my hands on the wheel. Ford is watching you from a camera mounted to the windshield behind the rearview mirror and another set of eyes behind the steering wheel. Once you are hands-free, you need to keep your eyes on the road. You will need to keep your hands on the wheel, but when the car registers that it is on an approved highway, it will signal that you can go hands-free. Tesla will let me attempt to autonomously traverse my driveway and anything bigger.įord’s BlueCruise is activated when you hit the far left button on the steering wheel. Ford is rapidly expanding on which roads are compatible but still hasn’t reached quite as wide as GM’s SuperCruise or Tesla’s AutoPilot. That route is blessed by Ford and available for hands-free BlueCruise. I took the Mustang Mach-E on Interstate 87 from Albany, New York, down toward New York City for about 120 miles. In-Lane Repositioning makes the hands-free highway driving experience feel more natural, keeping the vehicle in its lane while subtly shifting the vehicle’s position away from vehicles in adjacent lanes – especially helpful when next to bigger vehicles such as semis.Predictive Speed Assist automatically and smoothly adjusts the speed as drivers approach a sharp curve and will help signal the driver ahead of time when a speed change is about to occur so they understand why the vehicle is slowing.The system will perform a hands-free lane change when requested by the driver tapping the turn signal, and it can even suggest if a lane change would be beneficial when following slow-moving traffic. Lane Change Assist can help drivers move through traffic on the freeway with more confidence while using BlueCruise.For version 1.2, the following are the major new features that Ford is hyping and I am testing. Things have changed a lot in two years, however. Like many autonomous driving systems, Ford’s BlueCruise (also called Lincoln ActiveGlide) has been a work in progress since we first used it on the 2021 Mustang Mach-E. ![]()
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