Would you pay for BlueCruise?

[scubauke]

I have had blue cruise for several months and am incredibly unimpressed. It works very episodically and for minutes at a time prior to telling me it is cancelled or, please put hands on the wheel. It has become more of a problem to watch than have it not on. It does not seem to work next to barriers or in car pool lanes. Are others having similar experiences? Unless there is a dramtic improvement, I will not be paying for it.

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[Cm12]

Same. If it were like $20 per year, I probably would. No chance at all at $200 per year.

 

[Ming]

Nope. Until BC (or whatever other equivalent) really can drive as well as I do.

 

[ridgebackpilot]

I did pay for Bluecruise. So did many of us for whom it was an option. And I'll probably renew when the time comes.

Bluecruise works fine in my car, about as well as the Autopilot in my Tesla Model 3. Both are very useful on long freeway trips. The main difference is that Tesla's autopilot works almost anywhere, but to use Bluecruise you have to be on a mapped road. Neither are "Full Self-Driving", which doesn't really exist yet despite Tesla selling it for $12,000...

Fully-autonomous driving will only work well when all cars on the road are interlinked and play by the same rules. Imagine the safety benefits if that was the case: We wouldn't need stop signs, stoplights, or even headlights. Because every car would know what the other traffic is doing.

Sound farfetched? Not really; transport-category jet aircraft already have such a system. They have enhanced TCAS, which talks with the systems aboard nearby airplanes. In the event of a traffic conflict, the units decide which aircraft will descend and which will ascend or turn to avoid a collision.

 

[gpgrim]

Use it almost every day in normal and HOV/toll lanes. Intermittency seems more frequent since I had the recent updates (30 June 2022), but it works far more often for me then not. Seems to work best on two lane roads, non hands free, than the hands free highway conditions. I suspect this may have to do with the improved lane marker contrast between asphalt and concrete, but with this lethargic, 5000 lb rolling state machine, who really knows, except maybe some Ford engineer sitting in their cube, or guest bedroom now home office.

I'll prolly re-up when the time comes.

 

[roamtheworld]

Once trial expires I will not renew.
I might use FordPass Rewards if that is an option if improvements happen over the next couple of years that include lane changes and other larger options.

 

[dsheib]

Nope. It works on almost every road I've driven here in the North East but I don't enjoy using it at all. It wanders from side to side in the lane when traveling straight and turns every curve into a series of tiny corrections. The car does the adaptive cruise great, I prefer to just use that and do my own steering. I'd probably do the same even if the hands-free lane centering worked perfectly. Like Cm12, I'd pay $20 or maybe $50 a year just to watch how Ford (hopefully) improves it over time.

 

[RickMachE]

Like any feature, the camp is always split.

How many of these threads do we need...

 

[ChuckA]

I don’t think I’ll renew after my free year is up. If it was an annual renewal for less I’d reconsider. In CT with my driving pattern I haven’t used BC much.

$600 is a big ask for an MME on a 36 month Options contract. Is there a refund for the 18 months I may not own the car?

I feel lucky that I didn’t pay the $600 that was added to MSRP’s last year.

 

[KevinS]

There are virtually no roads in my area that it works with, so no.

 

[BalsaDust]

I was one of the unfortunate that was forced to buy Bluecruise when I orderd my car. I have tried it twice and feel very uncomfortable letting the car do the driving.
Yesterday I was on I95 here in Delaware, light traffic and cruising at 70mph, the car tended to hug the right side of the lane (not an issue) but during light curves it would move to the elft of the lane then back to the right.
I know plenty of folks think its a great implementation for cruise control but for me it was not worth the $600 added to the cost of my car.

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[New2EV]

No, don't do a lot of highway driving and when I have, I wasnt overly impressed with BC. It worked ok, but was more aggressive in stop and go traffic and ping pinged back and forth in open driving. Not worth the money (will it even be $200 by then?).

 

[MorsRedigo]

Never. There are no BC roads near us…

 

[scubauke]

I guess we should be glad we're not tesla and paying thousands for the charade!

 

[Mach1E]

My answer is “it depends.”

What exactly do you give up if you don’t renew? Is it only the hands Free and will the regular lane keep system still work?

Also it’ll depend on how much better it gets over the next couple years.

More roads it works on? Less lane hunting? Lane change? Less times it makes you take over?

It could be significantly better with some software updates in a couple years.

The times I have used it, it’s been great. But honestly the regular lane keep (hands on) on my wife’s Lincoln Aviator works just fine and doesn’t hug to the right or hunt around the lane as much.

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