2024 Blue Cruise issue.

[Womps]

Driving into the sun with Blue Cruise engaged it would continuously go in and out of self driving. Complained to dealership and work order comments is what they found. I went for a drive afterwards and found this to be true. You can have shade on sunroof open or Blue Cruise but not both. Hey Ford, maybe you should reimburse me for one of those options, you choose which one!!!

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[astro_fusion]

tint the sunroof

 

[Antimatter22]

Per the manual

 

[HammaMan]

Dazzling the CMR -- first I've seen it mentioned. Congrats on finding a new method for making the eye nanny mad

 

[Womps]

I wear regular eye glasses with the anti glare coating.

 

[RobertD]

I found when driving into the sun that I have to wear sunglasses or else I squint too much and it thinks I am falling asleep.

 

[Ajzride]

It also happens if you are driving away from the sunset or sunrise and the sun is blasting through the rear window.

 

[Deleted member 15247]

Driving into the sun with Blue Cruise engaged it would continuously go in and out of self driving. Complained to dealership and work order comments is what they found. I went for a drive afterwards and found this to be true. You can have shade on sunroof open or Blue Cruise but not both. Hey Ford, maybe you should reimburse me for one of those options, you choose which one!!!

Ya know, for the few miles here and there that the BC works, it’s pretty cool. But it’s so sketchy, at least here in my area, that I rarely use it. It’s possible that it’s due to all the road construction going on and maybe the sensors are having trouble reading the lines on the freeway, I’m not sure. Just wait until the free period runs out and they try to bill you those astronomical fees for continuing the BC service. It was a 2k option that I didn’t even want and then they wanna bang you to keep using it. F Ford!

 

[Womps]

tint the sunroof

Thats probably a good idea. I’m guessing that would take care of the glare. I have the glass roof on my Mach E which comes from the factory tinted because there is no shade to close and I’ve never experienced any glare issues disconnecting Blue Cruise. Mind you I don’t use it much as it’s the 1.0 BC and in my opinion it sucks.

 

[Snakebitten]

Thats probably a good idea. I’m guessing that would take care of the glare. I have the glass roof on my Mach E which comes from the factory tinted because there is no shade to close and I’ve never experienced any glare issues disconnecting Blue Cruise. Mind you I don’t use it much as it’s the 1.0 BC and in my opinion it sucks.

Yeah, sun glare or not, Bluecruise 1.0 can be frustrating because you can tell it has promise with what it does well, but comes with too many warts.

I'm fortunate to have BC 1.3 or above in both the Powerboost and the Mach-E. If Bluecruise 1.0 had started out at that level of functionality it would have a much different reputation. Considerably less sour, I suspect.

Ford's difficulty rolling it out is such a self inflicted wound too.

 

[STM]

Yeah, sun glare or not, Bluecruise 1.0 can be frustrating because you can tell it has promise with what it does well, but comes with too many warts.

I'm fortunate to have BC 1.3 or above in both the Powerboost and the Mach-E. If Bluecruise 1.0 had started out at that level of functionality it would have a much different reputation. Considerably less sour, I suspect.

Ford's difficulty rolling it out is such a self inflicted wound too.

I know you have all the best toys and features on your rides in addition to the sage advice and thoughts you share with all of us ?..

May I ask how you got BC 1.3 plus on your PB?
Considering that I drive over 25 miles every day on BC, 1.3 plus is one feature I am really looking forward to!

 

[Snakebitten]

I know you have all the best toys and features on your rides in addition to the sage advice and thoughts you share with all of us ?..

May I ask how you got BC 1.3 plus on your PB?
Considering that I drive over 25 miles every day on BC, 1.3 plus is one feature I am really looking forward to!

It's not officially announced by the manufacturer, but if your truck is completely up to date (likely requires FDRS) and you have Bluecruise, you are already experiencing the improvements in Lane Centering and BC engagement stability of 1.3-1.4

You do NOT yet have the added features of handsfree lane changing or lane bias away from large adjacent vehicles. Those 2 features can't be enabled until the option to enable them is available on the Sync screen.

Those without Bluecruise, but also completely up to date on all available updates, will also experience the same improvements to Lane Centering and the additional stability of staying engaged.

For the record, the Mach-E came with BC 1.3 from Ford. Which just makes it all the more frustrating for folks that have Mach-E and Lightnings and F150's that are 100% equipped for BC 1.3+ but are waiting FOREVER (it feels) for Ford to OTA them successfully.

I know Ford must really really want to succeed at this. They wrote and developed the software side and are sending out new vehicles pre-loaded with it. They KNOW it's a much more polished Bluecruise & ACC/Lane Centering package. They know the customer will be far more pleased.

They just aren't competent at OTA deployment of the files.

 

[STM]

It's not officially announced by the manufacturer, but if your truck is completely up to date (likely requires FDRS) and you have Bluecruise, you are already experiencing the improvements in Lane Centering and BC engagement stability of 1.3-1.4

You do NOT yet have the added features of handsfree lane changing or lane bias away from large adjacent vehicles. Those 2 features can't be enabled until the option to enable them is available on the Sync screen.

Those without Bluecruise, but also completely up to date on all available updates, will also experience the same improvements to Lane Centering and the additional stability of staying engaged.

For the record, the Mach-E came with BC 1.3 from Ford. Which just makes it all the more frustrating for folks that have Mach-E and Lightnings and F150's that are 100% equipped for BC 1.3+ but are waiting FOREVER (it feels) for Ford to OTA them successfully.

I know Ford must really really want to succeed at this. They wrote and developed the software side and are sending out new vehicles pre-loaded with it. They KNOW it's a much more polished Bluecruise & ACC/Lane Centering package. They know the customer will be far more pleased.

They just aren't competent at OTA deployment of the files.

Thank you for the clarification.. I do have the CMR FX and a few other updates. I do see BC stays engaged better. I rarely have false warnings on keeping my eyes on road from even before the update for it.
My biggest issue is how close to the right lane marker my truck likes to drive on BC.. I am not sure if it is due to the software bias or my truck needs to be calibrated to stay in the center of the lane..

 

[Womps]

Driving north on a cloudy day on Friday the BC would continuously kick in and out. Dropped it off at the Ford dealership in the afternoon and they diagnosed a faulty camera located above the nav screen. Ordered a new one and said it would be here on Monday. Does anyone know the version of BC the 2024 models have? It doesn’t indicate anything on the window sticker.

 

[Addabob64]

Yeah, sun glare or not, Bluecruise 1.0 can be frustrating because you can tell it has promise with what it does well, but comes with too many warts.

I'm fortunate to have BC 1.3 or above in both the Powerboost and the Mach-E. If Bluecruise 1.0 had started out at that level of functionality it would have a much different reputation. Considerably less sour, I suspect.

Ford's difficulty rolling it out is such a self inflicted wound too.

It's not officially announced by the manufacturer, but if your truck is completely up to date (likely requires FDRS) and you have Bluecruise, you are already experiencing the improvements in Lane Centering and BC engagement stability of 1.3-1.4

You do NOT yet have the added features of handsfree lane changing or lane bias away from large adjacent vehicles. Those 2 features can't be enabled until the option to enable them is available on the Sync screen.

Those without Bluecruise, but also completely up to date on all available updates, will also experience the same improvements to Lane Centering and the additional stability of staying engaged.

For the record, the Mach-E came with BC 1.3 from Ford. Which just makes it all the more frustrating for folks that have Mach-E and Lightnings and F150's that are 100% equipped for BC 1.3+ but are waiting FOREVER (it feels) for Ford to OTA them successfully.

I know Ford must really really want to succeed at this. They wrote and developed the software side and are sending out new vehicles pre-loaded with it. They KNOW it's a much more polished Bluecruise & ACC/Lane Centering package. They know the customer will be far more pleased.

They just aren't competent at OTA deployment of the files.

I am finding BC 1.4 a lot better at lane centering. I took a 4 hours trip yesterday and used it for a good 3 hours. I had very few issues, even in busier traffic on I-30.

The large vehicle bias is OK, but to me isn't as pronounced as I hoped it would be. BC make the slight adjustment, but if the semi shifts over in their lane closer to me, it wasn't able to readjust very well. It was pretty windy, so they were getting jostled around a lot.

I still find BC 1.4 is favoring the right lane marker a bit. It is better than BC 1.0 was for sure.

Lane change assist seems to work really well. There is a momentary delay as it checks for clear lanes, but makes the change and recenters in the new lane pretty well.

Last, the predictive speed control sucks in my opinion. It slows down way to soon, has many cases of slowing when there are no speed zones coming up (I think probably the fault of the poor data in the NAV system for some areas), and the curve prediction is WAAAY too conservative in how far it slows the vehicle. I tried turning it off, but when I did, it also deactivated speed sign recognition which I do like. I have to poke around in the menus to see if I am missing something since I would not think predictive speed control would be expected to go hand-in-hand with speed sign recognition.

I forgot to add that the eye nanny cam was a lot more finicky with me wearing polarized sunglasses. I had few alerts to keep my eyes on the road with BC 1.0. Yesterday, I was getting many more and had to tilt my head around a bit to get it to stop. I am not sure if they changed the algorithm, or if the conditions were just right that there was some additional glare or something. Moving my head a bit left/right, up/down when it happened made it happy.

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