BlueCruise Question

[RWayne]

Can Blue Cruise be used while towing. I tow a 21’ boat from PA to Florida And would love to use the hands free on some of the long stretches of highway.

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[Womps]

No.

 

[tbinmd]

Once the truck detects a trailer connected, it disables blue cruise. Nobody has found away around this. Ford needs to update the software so it knows how to handle a trailer.

 

[Ajzride]

There is no way I would use blue cruise with a trailer. Not because I'm opposed to the idea, but because I don't trust it. Even BC1.4 has too much ping pong and too aggressive of corrections when it's off course, it would introduce really bad sway into a trailer.

 

[PaulGrun]

Interesting question: I don’t have BlueCruise, but I do have adaptive cruise control with Lane Centering. I tow a teardrop trailer (12’, 1600lbs), and just got home from a 6500 mile trip where I used ACC and Lane Centering almost every day with no issues.
The question is interesting because I’ve been assuming that Lane Centeting is the base technology underneath BlueCruise, so I’m sort of surprised that it didn’t disable LC with the trailer.
ACC and LC are far from flawless but on the whole pretty effective. I find myself applying constant pressure (not much, but constant) to the steering wheel since my LC tends to prefer the right side of the lane a little more than feels comfortable to me. Early on when I first got the truck I felt like I was in a constant arm wrestling match with LC, but I don’t really have that sensation nowadays. (2022 XLT 302A Powerboost).

 

[23PB&Me]

I wouldn't trust it yet. As mentioned above, too much ping-ponging and variability to BC's behaviors. Living in the northwest BC cuts in and out on most of my roads anyway since there are corners that appear to be too aggressive for BC to negotiate. Even though LC seems to do ok with them, it seems like BC has some max radius parameter that it doesn't like turning beyond. Not sure if it is a HW or SW issue, BC needs to look further ahead and do a better job of anticipating where it needs to be in 2 seconds then incorporating that in the trajectory to stabilize the drive.

On straight roads it would probably be ok, but they would need a lot of work to keep it safe on corners(they would make it cut in and out even more often), and with your hands off the wheel your reaction time to idiots is slower with a lot more consequence for each fraction of a second your reaction is delayed. I don't foresee BC having severe trailer correction algorithms any time soon if they can't fully stabilize just the truck by itself yet.

 

[Cobraman428]

When towing I have to turn lane centering OFF or my TT will start to sway, so even if FORD would make it work, I still wouldn't use it. To many lane adjustments going on...

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