neririn
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I received notice today that my Blue Cruise trial was ending 12/31/23 and I have been invited to renew now to avoid any interruptions. I clicked on the link to see what they wanted to charge for it and to see if by any chance the 'interruptions' they claimed I could avoid are all the things that currently are broken with it and cause significant interruptions with every use.
So, it appears they want $80 per month for Blue Cruise. NOT A CHANCE. I mean if it was anything more than glorified adaptive cruise control, MAYBE I would consider paying for the 'service'. If it could park itself without me there, or it could change lanes, or even better if it could come get me after the baseball game so I didn't have to walk to the far parking lot, I'd likely be interested.
But for what it actually can 'do' and based on my hands ON experience with the supposedly hands OFF BlueCruise, I don't know what they are thinking they are providing with this service nor why they think it justifies additional cost.
In watching this forum, I knew it wouldn't be long before they wanted more money, so I have logged my last several BlueCruise drives home from the office. It is a 6.5 mile drive, on a flat, mostly straight highway. Not ONE drive was flawless, not one was any better than Adaptive cruise control with lane keeping assist.
Most recently in the span of 6.5 miles BlueCruise asked me to resume control 19 times. Canceled an additional 2 times. In 6.5 miles. BlueCruise could not even drive straight, by itself, for a consistent half mile. On that drive BlueCruise successfully navigated one gentle curve to the right at highway speeds, but began to 'ping pong' back and forth in the lane when trying to straighten back out, resulting in the "resume control' alarm. It asked me to resume control in the middle of any other vehicle movement that would require more than 2-3 degrees of gradual wheel turn.
Now remember, this is highway driving, no stoplights, 6.5 miles in the same lane, clear weather, full sunlight, moderate traffic. You know, the same simple, straightforward driving millions of people have been using their right foot and their left knee to control for the past 60 years so they can eat breakfast or do their makeup on the way into work.
Based on my logs, BlueCruise has successfully 'driven' my truck less than 30% of the time BlueCruise was enabled. And they want $80 a month. $80 is more than double what I pay to POWER my truck for a month. And the power utility successfully powers my truck 100% of the time. Ford is NUTS.
@Ford Motor Company in case you missed it, because you miss a lot lately, let me be clear. BLUECRUISE BARELY WORKS AT ALL AND IS NOT CURRENTLY WORTH PAYING ANYTHING EXTRA FOR. There wont be anything for me to miss come January 1, 2024. Actually, it will be better because my truck wont continue to lie to me and tell me BlueCruise is available for my drive.
I'd love to see the adoption numbers, but I am sure they will be so bad that they wont ever be posted publicly.
So, it appears they want $80 per month for Blue Cruise. NOT A CHANCE. I mean if it was anything more than glorified adaptive cruise control, MAYBE I would consider paying for the 'service'. If it could park itself without me there, or it could change lanes, or even better if it could come get me after the baseball game so I didn't have to walk to the far parking lot, I'd likely be interested.
But for what it actually can 'do' and based on my hands ON experience with the supposedly hands OFF BlueCruise, I don't know what they are thinking they are providing with this service nor why they think it justifies additional cost.
In watching this forum, I knew it wouldn't be long before they wanted more money, so I have logged my last several BlueCruise drives home from the office. It is a 6.5 mile drive, on a flat, mostly straight highway. Not ONE drive was flawless, not one was any better than Adaptive cruise control with lane keeping assist.
Most recently in the span of 6.5 miles BlueCruise asked me to resume control 19 times. Canceled an additional 2 times. In 6.5 miles. BlueCruise could not even drive straight, by itself, for a consistent half mile. On that drive BlueCruise successfully navigated one gentle curve to the right at highway speeds, but began to 'ping pong' back and forth in the lane when trying to straighten back out, resulting in the "resume control' alarm. It asked me to resume control in the middle of any other vehicle movement that would require more than 2-3 degrees of gradual wheel turn.
Now remember, this is highway driving, no stoplights, 6.5 miles in the same lane, clear weather, full sunlight, moderate traffic. You know, the same simple, straightforward driving millions of people have been using their right foot and their left knee to control for the past 60 years so they can eat breakfast or do their makeup on the way into work.
Based on my logs, BlueCruise has successfully 'driven' my truck less than 30% of the time BlueCruise was enabled. And they want $80 a month. $80 is more than double what I pay to POWER my truck for a month. And the power utility successfully powers my truck 100% of the time. Ford is NUTS.
@Ford Motor Company in case you missed it, because you miss a lot lately, let me be clear. BLUECRUISE BARELY WORKS AT ALL AND IS NOT CURRENTLY WORTH PAYING ANYTHING EXTRA FOR. There wont be anything for me to miss come January 1, 2024. Actually, it will be better because my truck wont continue to lie to me and tell me BlueCruise is available for my drive.
I'd love to see the adoption numbers, but I am sure they will be so bad that they wont ever be posted publicly.
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