Ford’s latest BlueCruise hands-free driving software update narrows the gap with hands-free systems from competitors GM and Tesla.
In the race to offer customers true hands-free, partially automated driving technology, there are only three real competitors today. Tesla's system is the best-known, and offers the greatest number of features and widest operational environment. GM's Super Cruise system is, in our opinion, the safest and best-driving, and offers nearly as many features as Tesla. Ford's BlueCruise technology lags behind the other two, but the latest Version 1.2 has narrowed the gap.
Thanks to updates to the look of the digital instrument cluster and infotainment system in a previous OTA update, it's now easier to understand when BlueCruise is actually active on a Mach-E . Previously, Ford used icons and messages to indicate whether you needed to have your hands on the wheel or not. Now, it's as simple as looking at the color of the screen. If the whole instrument cluster is blue, you're in hands-free mode.
Both Tesla and GM have had lane changing technology for some time now, and both also offer fully automatic lane changes, with the computer deciding when to change lanes and doing so without waiting for the driver to manually activate the turn signal. Tesla's system is also capable of remaining active on freeway flyover ramps. GM's system, meanwhile, refuses to automatically change lanes into an exit-only lane, requiring the driver to take over first.
Adaptive cruise control systems that automatically slow for corners have been around for a few years. It's a nice feature—rather than throwing the occupants around by entering a sharper corner at higher speed, the car automatically slows down slightly until the vehicle is through the corner, just as many human drivers might, then returns to the original speed. We may disagree about which corners require slowing and by how much, but the concept is a good one.
Frustratingly, Ford has grouped these features together under one setting, and it's either on or off. We'd very much prefer the ability to toggle them separately and keep the slowing-for-corners feature on while turning the automatic speed limit adjustment off. On the other hand, those disengagements were much shorter than before. We drove the Mach-E with the new software on the same route we'd driven withthat uses the old software, and found that the older version disengaged hands-free just as often but stayed off for much longer. The new software typically reengaged hands-free mode after only a few moments, unless there was a mitigating factor like road construction.
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