SonnyDigs
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I'm sure of that..Interestingly, I received the invite from Ford early access this afternoon to join the Bluecruise program. I guess they are reading these forums ;-)
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I'm sure of that..Interestingly, I received the invite from Ford early access this afternoon to join the Bluecruise program. I guess they are reading these forums ;-)
I would guess it will be the same as it responds to lane assist and adaptive Cruise Control warnings.Has anyone heard how aggressive the eye monitoring will be? If you glance at the radio to change the station, does the car get mad? What if you’re browsing f150gen14.com on your phone while the car is driving? What’s the limit and what happens if you take your eyes off the road?
I wish I got a free demo invite for bluecruiseI would guess it will be the same as it responds to lane assist and adaptive Cruise Control warnings.
There is an email address that was in an earlier post you can send in a request.I wish I got a free demo invite for bluecruise
I hope you're not serious about the ankle weight nonsense.I drove from San Antonio TX to Asheville NC with my 1.5 pound ankle weight on steering wheel
with no issues. The way back was straight thru. 17 hours 35 mins.
its what BlueCrusie will be like no hands on the wheel.
I have signed up for early access for BC
I’ve driven >100mi with the only thing I’ve had to do was signal to change lanes to pass someone. While I agree that using a weight to bypass the system is dangerous, it is very capable.neither of them can go 10 miles of straight freeway without encountering something they can't handle (safety cones, cars on the shoulder, sun glare, faded lane markers, off-ramp exit lanes, on-ramp weave lanes …)
I've driven a whole day cross country, most of 1000 miles non-stop on I-80, and the F-150 hardly made a mistake all day. But I've also had numerous events where it calmly beeps and displays "cancelled" just because the freeway is curving and I'm passing the exit to an off-ramp with faded line paint. Or like this evening when a driver in a Subaru was about to miss their exit, so they just put on their turn signal and cut me off, basically asking me for the courtesy of not wanting to meet me and exchange insurance information. The F-150 "saw" the collision and told me about it, but didn't try to avoid it (which was as simple as brushing the brakes and slowing 10-20 mph while the other driver asserted right of way to make the exit ramp … after all, they were in front, they were indicating the lane change, all they needed was for me to not be an ass and refuse to let them use "my" lane… : ) Of course if my vehicle had been a police vehicle, they would have just taken the next exit and doubled back …I’ve driven >100mi with the only thing I’ve had to do was signal to change lanes to pass someone. While I agree that using a weight to bypass the system is dangerous, it is very capable.
I think this video answers some questions about what functionality is brought by the “GPS mapping” and approved roadways areas. Instead of using that data to bias the system for upcoming turns or change the feedback gain or anything else to make the system more accurate in a turn, the GPS and mapping data is simply used to identify when the system will require you put your hands back on the wheel. It’s a bit disappointing and leads me to believe that there won’t be any enhancement above and beyond the current 360 system lane centering other than turning off the steering wheel sensor on straight sections of the highway and turning on the eye monitoring. It still remains to be seen how annoying the eye monitoring will be.A pretty good look at BlueCruise. The guy behind the wheel is a well-respected authority on vehicle and systems design and production engineering. He's also had a sit-down interview with Elon Musk which is worth a watch.
1. Have you heard? Blue cruise isn’t out yet. Not even to the registered early access program. Basically, blue cruise is still in the testing phase, and hasn’t even been rolled out to their Beta program drivers. People that leave large posts absolutely crapping on what I feel is a crowning achievement in automotive history are just ignorant people that have no clue how absolutely amazingly complex these systems actually are.was just about to post that Sandy Munro video as well. Basically from watching this video it becomes pretty clear that this is just a camera which monitors your eyes in order to have lane keeping not cancel rather than your hands on the wheel. With an ankle weight very sharp bends can be taken but you end up riding the line (or possibly going into the other lane, likely why they only let you use it on divided highways, it works fine with an ankle weight on all roads but on sharp bends you end up in oncoming traffic) because the system isn't good enough to keep you in the middle which would of course be dangerous. In fact, I would say that those bends should have been able to be taken anyway because they didn't really appear to be that large. In Canada I feel like any bend on a highway large enough to give the system problems would have a reduced speed limit and multiple warning signs before entering the bend telling you to reduce speed. So either Ford is very conservative or those bends were larger than they looked. Fords answer to this seems to be to use GPS to detect large curves on the map and tell you to put your hands on the wheel before you enter the curve rather than making their system better...so disappointing and certainly not worth an up charge vs an ankle weight. Seems like if Ford actually had people "map" the highways it was just to mark which curves the system will lose control at and tell it to disengage there which would mean their plan all along was to think that would be ok rather than improving the system. As Sandy mentioned in regards to the lane bias the Ford doesn't give you a feeling of control on large bends because it doesn't start the turn gently and in advance, it waits until you feel uncomfortably close to the curve and then jacks the wheel around to try to stay in the middle of the lane (with limited success). Overall, the system blows.
Did the same thing driving back from Iowa to Sacramento. 75% of the trip didn’t have hands on the steering wheel. That ankle weight is legit.I drove from San Antonio TX to Asheville NC with my 1.5 pound ankle weight on steering wheel
with no issues. The way back was straight thru. 17 hours 35 mins.
its what BlueCrusie will be like no hands on the wheel.
I have signed up for early access for BC