How is BlueCruise for you?

[805Badger]

Yep, it's all new to everyone I guess lol.

The steps above are all in the truck, but you'll need the app to send the activation signal back to the truck and reconnect the app to the truck after the reset.

It also all needs to be with the truck on and parked.

Thanks, I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Thanks again!

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[805Badger]

Thanks, I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Thanks again!

Ok, I mentioned that my wife is out driving the truck now and I would apply the "Dude fix' when she got back. She just texted me that hands free and the other connected services started working. So either someone is reading this thread or more likely it just takes some time to activate.

I won't tell her that I did nothing to fix it and retain my hero status for a bit longer.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Ffxdude]

Used blue cruise on the ride home tonight and thought it preformed well. Didn't skew to the right and only time it appeared to ping pong in the lane was in sections where they had the lane markers scrubbed off and repainted slightly over due to construction lane shifts. Traffic was flowing from about to 45-55 and surprisingly I didn't get the typical NoVA joker cutting in front.

 

[Slick68]

Nope, mine still looks the same. BlueCruise seems to work, but no hands free, but I don't know if that is because the roads here are not mapped or it isn't activated. Spent a couple of hours on the phone with Ford getting passed around but no one seemed to know and I had to go and was getting frustrated.

Please let me know if you figure something out.

As has been stated, “Hands Free” mode of Blue Cruise is only available on certain mapped roads. When you are truly in Hands Free mode, you’ll see a blue steering wheel in the left side of your dash screen with the words “Hands Free”. I used it on portions of I495 (DC Beltway) on Sunday and it worked great

 

[805Badger]

Thanks, I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Thanks again!

Ok, I mentioned that my wife is out driving the truck now and I would apply the "Dude fix' when she got back. She just texted me that hands free and the other connected services started working. So either someone is reading this thread or more likely it just takes some time to activate.

I won't tell her that I did nothing to fix it and retain my hero status for a bit longer.

Thanks for your help.

As has been stated, “Hands Free” mode of Blue Cruise is only available on certain mapped roads. When you are truly in Hands Free mode, you’ll see a blue steering wheel in the left side of your dash screen with the words “Hands Free”. I used it on portions of I495 (DC Beltway) on Sunday and it worked great

Thanks all for your help. After much begging and cajoling, my wife let me take it for a test drive tonight (only the second time she has let me drive it) and the BlueCruise worked perfectly and as advertised. It just needed to be activated. Its too bad nobody at Ford could have told us. For our other cars the driver assist just worked out of the gate. But we got it now so I think we are good. At least on the roads we tried it on, its easily as good as Autopilot (Telsa) or Driver+ (Rivian, which it is actually better than). So happy wife now!

 

[Ffxdude]

As has been stated, “Hands Free” mode of Blue Cruise is only available on certain mapped roads. When you are truly in Hands Free mode, you’ll see a blue steering wheel in the left side of your dash screen with the words “Hands Free”. I used it on portions of I495 (DC Beltway) on Sunday and it worked great

We should get a convoy of lightnings and blue cruise our way around the beltway to counteract the trucker protests....

 

[Joneii]

I have a Model Y and my experience has been that Blue Cruise is superior to Tesla Autopilot. Tesla’s autopilot makes me nervous. It brakes too hard, fights back if I take control without disengaging first, and makes poor decisions about abnormal traffic conditions such as road construction.
Blue Cruise has close to normal braking (although it’s handling of someone making a left turn in front of you is a bit unnatural as it will come to a complete stop and hold its position until they are completely clear of your lane before resuming). It doesn’t fight if I takeover. When it encounters an abnormal traffic pattern, it has surprised me by handling some quite well. The ones it can’t handle, it just tells me to take over rather than trying to guess what is right.
Overall, I’ve been impressed with it. I think it has a bit of a learning function in the lane assist (non-hands free mode). It seems like when first activated it biases toward the center of the road, but if I apply pressure to put it into the center of the LANE for a couple of miles, it seems to learn where I am comfortable. In the lane and it will hold that spot allowing me to reduce pressure. Unfortunately this learning process doesn’t seem connected to the driver profile and must be “taught” every time you engage auto steer. The truck doesn’t seem to have the center-road-bias in hands free Blue Cruise, as that seems to lane center pretty well.

 

[lipnorth]

update my BlueCruise. Ford keeps teasing great improvements but Im still stuck at v1. If you want me to pay you need to get me updated.

 

[flux capacitor]

I have a different problem which drives me crazy. When ever I use it it starts off fine, but then it tells me that my hands are not on the steering wheel, but both of my hands are on the steering wheel. I start squeezing the steering wheel harder still getting the warning only more often, I start moving my hands around the steering wheel still get the warning, but now it breaks real hard 2 times and disengages. I made sure no dust on the inferred sensors. I am so sick of it I don't even want to use it anymore. When I first got the truck it worked great, but after a couple of updates it is now just an annoying thing. I was hoping another update would fix it, but I am on 10.1 and still operating the same way. I do not know what to do about it.

 

[PJnc284]

You are referring to regular hands-on adaptive cruise with lane assist. The wheel isn't capacitive and uses a torque sensor which requires you to physically move the wheel or provide a decent bit of resistance.

 

[Traconesu]

Yes, that's part of the problem. The system should not require constant input during its operation. Adaptive cruise is part of BC, you can't have BC without it. If I have to constantly adjust the steering and following distance, I might as well drive myself without any assistance.

Often times when BC is constantly off & on I'd love to just turn it off. I do love the adaptive cruise, lane centering. I won't mind when my BC trial runs out.

 

[Traconesu]

I have a different problem which drives me crazy. When ever I use it it starts off fine, but then it tells me that my hands are not on the steering wheel, but both of my hands are on the steering wheel. I start squeezing the steering wheel harder still getting the warning only more often, I start moving my hands around the steering wheel still get the warning, but now it breaks real hard 2 times and disengages. I made sure no dust on the inferred sensors. I am so sick of it I don't even want to use it anymore. When I first got the truck it worked great, but after a couple of updates it is now just an annoying thing. I was hoping another update would fix it, but I am on 10.1 and still operating the same way. I do not know what to do about it.

When you get both hands on steering wheel just slightly move the wheel to the left or right is what it's wanting . It looks for a slight resistance to its auto steering.

 

[CD4TNF]

BlueCruise works great for me. It has it's limits that I can respect. I'd rather have BlueCruise than not having it. I respect it takes money to maintain the system. I'll keep subscribed to it and use it when I need it.

 

[HOTAS]

Some peeps here are mistaking ACC lane centering for (hands free) Blue Cruise. They are different. Blue Cruise does not prompt for hands on the steering wheel.
I like Blue Cruise, while it remains engaged ! And that’s the problem for me….It keeps going in/out of Hands Free mode for no apparent reason. It kinda annoying.
But when it works it’s great, and I like it better than Tesla autopilot,
mainly because lane change is standard with Blue Cruise.
But it’s not worth $500/yr.
3yrs, maybe, 5yrs YES!

 

[flux capacitor]

When you get both hands on steering wheel just slightly move the wheel to the left or right is what it's wanting . It looks for a slight resistance to its auto steering.

Yes that works better, but it is like you are fighting it all the time. If you just stop putting pressure for a few moments it starts warning you. It is annoying to have to constantly back and forth on the steering wheel. To me it is more tiring than just using regular cruise and just steer the truck. At least it is peaceful and quite without all the warning messages and crap.

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