BlueCruise - It comes and goes

[phil]

I regularly drive the same part of a very big Interstate. For weeks, BlueCruise was regularly available and I used it somewhat frequently. Last week, same road, same car, same controls - BlueCruise never showed up as available, I could not for the life of me get it to work once during six or eight 20-mile trips up and down the Interstate.

Then, yesterday, I tried to figure out the problem. Checked FordPass and was told that software was up to date, so that wasn't the problem. I checked all the settings, they seemed fine, and I changed nothing. But the next time on the road, BlueCruise showed up as available and worked same as it had previously.

Any ideas? Is the Mustang just temperamental? Just another example of all Ford software being unreliable?

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[GuliblGuy]

Was it at a different time of day? If there is sun glare, dirty camera, etc and it can't see the road/lane markers, then no BC

 

[RickMachE]

Did you maybe hit the button on the steering wheel to turn it off?

Were you in the middle of an update?

 

[phil]

No, none of those things. Multiple long trips in both directions. Every sun angle. I pressed that damn button so many times... No notification of any update.

Thanks

 

[ponydsp]

Was it at a different time of day? If there is sun glare, dirty camera, etc and it can't see the road/lane markers, then no BC

agreed. If sun is bad enough that I need to pull down the visor even with sunglasses on, BC will start freaking out.

 

[Logal727]

Was lane centering working at all? Next time try to turn on just lane centering without ACC and see if it works. I’ve had a weird thing where it told me “Lane Centering not available” for one trip and it’s worked fine w we since. It might be a thing with the hardware or temporary bug.

 

[phil]

Was lane centering working at all? Next time try to turn on just lane centering without ACC and see if it works.

I don't think I've ever touched the lane centering button.

While BlueCruise was MIA, I did sometimes see a single, blue semicircle in front of the car icon on the display. I never got the full blue circle and cloud surrounding the car that indicate BC is operative.

I have not yet found the explanation of the blue semicircle. Is that related somehow?

 

[hybrid2bev]

I don't think I've ever touched the lane centering button.

While BlueCruise was MIA, I did sometimes see a single, blue semicircle in front of the car icon on the display. I never got the full blue circle and cloud surrounding the car that indicate BC is operative.

I have not yet found the explanation of the blue semicircle. Is that related somehow?

That means you had the adaptive cruise on and lane keeping off. No BlueCruise if lane keeping is off.

If lane keeping was on without BlueCruise (just regular cruise) you would see that blue line all the way around the car icon. Or just two lines along side of the car if lane keeping was on without cruise.

 

[phil]

That means you had the adaptive cruise on and lane keeping off. No BlueCruise if lane keeping is off.

If lane keeping was on without BlueCruise (just regular cruise) you would see that blue line all the way around the car icon. Or just two lines along side of the car if lane keeping was on without cruise.

Thanks, that would explain why the semicircle was present part of the time - I tried all combinations repeatedly to get BC working. For a week, nothing worked to activate BlueCruise and it never showed as Available. Now, it works again.

 

[Crilly]

Let us. Know thanks

 

[Maquis]

Your car wouldn’t happen to be really dirty? Obscured cameras?

 

[phil]

Your car wouldn’t happen to be really dirty? Obscured cameras?

No. And it did not get washed yesterday before BC started working again.

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