This adds a little bit of color to the enhancement process but not to the detail I think you're looking for.
In fairness if this was a tesla forum, Elon would say "24 hour clock is superior, live by it now" and then all Tesla owners would instantly say "24 hour clock, its awesome, just like having to back into every spot, its the future."
It is just odd because the language for 1.3 was part of 1.2, wasn't it? It will help on curves, etc.? But now that language is removed from 1.2 and put into 1.3. Obviously it has just been vastly improved from how it worked in 1.2, based off their testing, but still worth noting.This adds a little bit of color to the enhancement process but not to the detail I think you're looking for.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rolling-out-bluecruise-13-how-we-using-data-improve-software-omari/
Rolling out BlueCruise 1.3: How we are using data to improve software
Sammy Omari
Building magical ADAS experiences
Published Jul 13, 2023
I am proud to share that Ford Motor Company's BlueCruise 1.3, the latest software version of our hands-free highway driving feature, will start to roll out via a software update this summer to Mustang Mach-E vehicles equipped with BlueCruise – 2021 through 2023 model years. To me, it is really powerful knowing someone who bought a Mach-E almost three years ago will get an improved BlueCruise experience through a software update.
BlueCruise is already available in 225K Ford and Lincoln vehicles on the road. The rollout of BlueCruise 1.3 demonstrates where Ford is headed with software development and the impact it will have on customers. With a growing install base – the number of BlueCruise-capable vehicles on the road – we will be shipping updates to more and more vehicles.
BlueCruise 1.3
BlueCruise 1.3 brings an even better hands-free highway driving experience to customers by helping them stay engaged in hands-free mode longer. During our internal testing across a variety of roads in the U.S., BlueCruise 1.3 stayed engaged in hands-free mode for an average of 3X longer compared to BlueCruise 1.2. We saw an even larger performance improvement from BlueCruise 1.0 to BlueCruise 1.3 with an average of 5X longer engagement in hands-free mode.
We launched BlueCruise 1.2 earlier this year with new features for customers – Lane Changes Assist and In-Lane Repositioning. Now we are already following up to deliver BlueCruise 1.3 to customers, demonstrating a substantial increase in performance in a short period of time – even faster than we anticipated.
Always learning, always improving
What enables us to move quickly is our Continuous Learning Loop. We can use the power of large-scale data coming from BlueCruise-equipped vehicles which customers have agreed to share with us to quickly drive better performance and new feature development.
Today, our customers have driven 95M+ cumulative hands-free miles. The more Ford and Lincoln owners who use BlueCruise, the more we’re able to learn and make meaningful improvements to BlueCruise. We are committed to being a trusted steward of the personal information our customers share with us.
We look at data that customers have opted-in to share with us with a macro view – type of vehicle, geographic location, or specific use case, such as stop-and-go traffic and long road trips. From there, we can also focus on the micro view to better understand certain situations. For example, when a driver takes back control of the vehicle in hands-free mode, we can review BlueCruise data and how the system responded during that event to identify areas for improvement. With that data, we can evaluate whether the improvements would have enhanced the performance using our simulation framework.
That framework also allows us to identify opportunities for new features. For example, we noticed that drivers tend to bias toward one side of the lane versus the other when a large semi-truck is passing by, so we added the In Lane Repositioning feature to BlueCruise 1.2, helping make it easier to share the roads with bigger trucks.
From there, we can develop and deploy these features to vehicles through software updates. Our goal is to keep this loop going as quickly as possible – finding the issues, making the improvements, and sending out the updates to our customers.
The road ahead
Earlier this year, we announced that all Mustang Mach-E vehicles will be built with the necessary hardware to enable BlueCruise as opposed to purchasing the hardware separately.
The hardware and Ford-developed software stack is laying the foundation for how we will be able to seamlessly deliver hands-free driving excellence quickly to the customer in the future. This is only the beginning.
Well yeah, there's that...
Thanks FMC!
