Cruise Control Mode Selection

[PV2EV]

After two drives on mixed roads (gravel, city, undivided highway, divided freeway) I am finding the binary functionality of the Cruise Control Steering Wheel Button lacking. I would like to press it to cycle through the Cruise Control Modes:

Normal Cruise Control
Adaptive Cruise Control
Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control
BlueCruise

The current function of selecting whatever the most featured option is does not work in many situations. I don't want BlueCruise on undivided highways, but it starts, tells me to remove hands, then tells me to grab the wheel seconds later (I think when oncoming traffic is sensed). Likewise, I don't want to dig through the settings to turn it off or on.

Sometimes I just want Normal Cruise Control, and others Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control, and rarely Adaptive Cruise Control. If I turn on everything but Adaptive Cruise Control, then the steering wheel button should cycle through the other three. Likewise, if I hit resume, the last mode should turn on.

This may require a bit of rework of the menu's but should not be that hard. Thoughts?

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[Zprime29]

Pardon my ignorance, what's the difference between intelligent adaptive and regular adaptive?

 

[sotek2345]

Pardon my ignorance, what's the difference between intelligent adaptive and regular adaptive?

Reading and following speed signs.

 

[Zprime29]

Thanks, didn't know that was an option.

 

[Maquis]

Pardon my ignorance, what's the difference between intelligent adaptive and regular adaptive?

Reading and following speed signs.

Is that nomenclature used in the Lightning? In the Mach-E, it just “Intelligent cruise” and speed sign reading a separate selection.

 

[sotek2345]

Is that nomenclature used in the Lightning? In the Mach-E, it just “Intelligent cruise” and speed sign reading a separate selection.

Ford nomenclature is all over the place so it wouldn't surprise me. I always thought adaptive cruise used the radar to speed match and intelligent adaptive cruise added the speed sign recognition via camera.

 

[Pioneer74]

I don't want BlueCruise on undivided highways, but it starts, tells me to remove hands, then tells me to grab the wheel seconds later (I think when oncoming traffic is sensed).

BlueCruise doesn't function where there is oncoming traffic. It only works on mapped divided highways.

BlueCruise allows for true hands-free driving on prequalified sections of divided highways called Hands-Free Blue Zones that make up over 130,000 miles of North American roads.

https://www.ford.com/support/how-to...s/what-is-ford-bluecruise-hands-free-driving/

 

[Tony Burgh]

“BlueCruise doesn't function where there is oncoming traffic. It only works on mapped divided highways.”

Not true. I’ve used it on undivided two lane road. Freeport Road between Powers Run and Hulton Bridge north of Pittsburgh.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Trust me, you don’t want regular cruise control once you try adaptive. They don’t offer it easily because only a bonehead would use it.

 

[Pioneer74]

“BlueCruise doesn't function where there is oncoming traffic. It only works on mapped divided highways.”

Not true. I’ve used it on undivided two lane road. Freeport Road between Powers Run and Hulton Bridge north of Pittsburgh.

So Ford's press release is wrong?

 

[Maquis]

“BlueCruise doesn't function where there is oncoming traffic. It only works on mapped divided highways.”

Not true. I’ve used it on undivided two lane road. Freeport Road between Powers Run and Hulton Bridge north of Pittsburgh.

So Ford's press release is wrong?

As @sotek2345 mentioned, Ford's nomenclature is “all over the place.” BlueCruise now includes what used to be known as “lane keeping assist”, not to be confused with “hands-free BlueCruise.”
On BlueCruise mapped highways (always divided) hands-free is enabled.

 

[Ken]

you can enable the dynamic cruise control separately from the lane keeping, that's what I tend to do since I really don't like the feedback of the steering wheel and I keep thinking it's going to drive me into oncoming traffic. If you deselect the lane keeping button on the steering wheel and just use the cruise button it will go into the dynamic. I don't think there's an option for old school cruise control and I would never want that anyway. I wasn't aware it was supposed to track speed limit signs. Doing that around here will get you rear ended quickly.

 

[Pioneer74]

On BlueCruise mapped highways (always divided) hands-free is enabled.

Two members on here are saying it is engaging on undivided highways.

I don't want BlueCruise on undivided highways, but it starts, tells me to remove hands, then tells me to grab the wheel seconds later (I think when oncoming traffic is sensed).

Not true. I’ve used it on undivided two lane road. Freeport Road between Powers Run and Hulton Bridge north of Pittsburgh.

 

[Tony Burgh]

So Ford's press release is wrong?

I can’t address what Ford says, only what I have experienced. I gave very specific location information.

 

[sotek2345]

Two members on here are saying it is engaging on undivided highways.

I am going to take a guess. If you have lane keep assist turned on, and activate cruise control, it says blue cruise activated and for a few seconds will even act like it is in hands free mode since lance centering is on. However, the "hands free" icon should not show up in the gauge cluster unless you are on a mapped divided highway. So, on a 2 lane highway, the truck will steer for you, but you need to keep you hands on the wheel. You have a couple seconds leeway before it tells at you. On a mapped divided highway the handsfree icon will show up and the truck will steer for you without needing your hands on the wheel.

Ford really screwed up the nomenclature and iconography to make it far more complex than it really is.

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