wayne b
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I’ve now put hundreds of miles using BlueCruise and thought a separate thread (from “when is it coming to my car” threads) would be helpful for those of us using it, with tips and feedback.
For context, my previous car was a Volvo with its own version (it required a hand on one corner of the wheel), it worked quite well. The Ford driving side of it is as good or better than the Volvo. The interface side seems as good to me, but my wife doesn’t think so and watching her use it I can kind of see why she thinks this. Her confusion is what the steering wheel with the tachometer means (the car is doing “some” steering) vs. the hands free steering wheel means. And she doesn’t think there’s enough warning indication when it turns off. The Volvo beeped at you more aggressively.
One bug I’ve found. If you set your speed limit assist (in my case, to 10 miles over the speed limit), while in BlueCruise it will slow you down if it the speed limit zone changes (eg if you are in 70 zone and it goes down to 55, you’ll go from 79 to 65). The bug is it often reads the 55 signs that are only for trucks and trailers, and suddenly the car is slowing down and there’s no indication of why (or I missed the notification in the 12" screen). This has happened three times. I think the problem is if you set speed limit assist, it’s buried in the settings and there’s no indication what it’s set at on the instrument cluster.
Similarly I’d like a better indication at all times of what my cruise gap (1-4) is set at. I think the speed you’ve set and the distance are pretty crucial pieces of information and unless the intention is to keep your eyes down on the cluster, hunting for that information, it’s odd they are buried in the bottom right corner. The hands free icon is good in terms of you can’t miss it, but it does take up a lot of space that could provide that information. Did a quick mock up of what I'd like to use.
For context, my previous car was a Volvo with its own version (it required a hand on one corner of the wheel), it worked quite well. The Ford driving side of it is as good or better than the Volvo. The interface side seems as good to me, but my wife doesn’t think so and watching her use it I can kind of see why she thinks this. Her confusion is what the steering wheel with the tachometer means (the car is doing “some” steering) vs. the hands free steering wheel means. And she doesn’t think there’s enough warning indication when it turns off. The Volvo beeped at you more aggressively.
One bug I’ve found. If you set your speed limit assist (in my case, to 10 miles over the speed limit), while in BlueCruise it will slow you down if it the speed limit zone changes (eg if you are in 70 zone and it goes down to 55, you’ll go from 79 to 65). The bug is it often reads the 55 signs that are only for trucks and trailers, and suddenly the car is slowing down and there’s no indication of why (or I missed the notification in the 12" screen). This has happened three times. I think the problem is if you set speed limit assist, it’s buried in the settings and there’s no indication what it’s set at on the instrument cluster.
Similarly I’d like a better indication at all times of what my cruise gap (1-4) is set at. I think the speed you’ve set and the distance are pretty crucial pieces of information and unless the intention is to keep your eyes down on the cluster, hunting for that information, it’s odd they are buried in the bottom right corner. The hands free icon is good in terms of you can’t miss it, but it does take up a lot of space that could provide that information. Did a quick mock up of what I'd like to use.
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