BlueCruise: When will Canada be fully mapped and usable?

[GarageWarrior2023]

Has anyone heard anything about when Canada will be getting mapped out for BlueCruise?

Chevy has almost everything mapped out for SuperCruise already. My last vehicle had SuperCruise and it was pretty cool.

Ford has the US nicely plotted out and usable for BlueCruise but Canada is a complete afterthought still with next to no roads mapped. My province actually has absolutely no BlueCruise roads at all.

It seems a bit odd that we're this far in and Canadians can't really make use of BlueCruise equipped vehicles.

Any insight or timelines that anyone is aware of would be great....I haven't had any luck getting any information from Ford as of yet.

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[Womps]

Totally agree. There is a place on the Ford web site where you put in your location and your destination and it will tell you the % of miles available for Blue Cruise. I live in central Alberta and if I drive on the QE2 which is the main freeway running north and south in Alberta my Blue Cruise will work for 58% of the miles on this freeway between my place and Calgary. Wow!! We make a few trips to Lethbridge every year in southern Alberta and I can use Blue Cruise for less than 10% of the 160 miles from Calgary to Lethbridge. Wow! and double Wow Ford. But hey, why don’t you charge me $800 a year for that outstanding service. Rant over.

 

[GarageWarrior2023]

Totally agree. There is a place on the Ford web site where you put in your location and your destination and it will tell you the % of miles available for Blue Cruise. I live in central Alberta and if I drive on the QE2 which is the main freeway running north and south in Alberta my Blue Cruise will work for 58% of the miles on this freeway between my place and Calgary. Wow!! We make a few trips to Lethbridge every year in southern Alberta and I can use Blue Cruise for less than 10% of the 160 miles from Calgary to Lethbridge. Wow! and double Wow Ford. But hey, why don’t you charge me $800 a year for that outstanding service. Rant over.

Wow, lucky you can actually try it out in your province. But like you said, even that is extremely limited.

I've played with the trip planner as well, looking at various areas of the country. And yes at times you get anywhere from 1% to 10% of BlueCruise roads, if that.

I really wish there was some clarity on what they are doing with this. I'd love to see a map that has additional supported roads weekly, as they aggressively map out our country for BlueCruise.

 

[JuliaSWMME]

I would love to know this too! I bought the three year sub on discount like an idiot assuming I’d get lane change updates and it would be usable on more than the 401 and 407 in Ontario. I’ve had it pop up as available on other highways near Kitchener/waterloo but when I tried to use it, it never engaged. Ive never had it work on Highbury in London. i get we have a huge country without as many major highways but seeing how mapped the US is makes ours pretty pathetic. It could be so good! I was so impressed with it when I first tried it, especially because I have to do more highway driving now, but it really doesn’t work well enough to consider it a big benefit anymore. Such a shame!

I did use it today on the straightest stretch of the 401 west of London and it was great. Until it had a few wobbles in lane for no reason and told me to take control. maybe about 5km of use til that happened, ridiculous.

 

[And-E]

Works great all around the greater Toronto area. All the highways are mapped. Had it kick off a couple times on one corner when Toronto-bound on the QEW, right before the Burlington skyway bridge. No issues otherwise over maybe 2000 KM.

 

[music_cities]

Ya it's dumb but the Calgary to Banff highway is mapped and it's basically the only one I drive so I'm good.

 

[GarageWarrior2023]

Works great all around the greater Toronto area. All the highways are mapped. Had it kick off a couple times on one corner when Toronto-bound on the QEW, right before the Burlington skyway bridge. No issues otherwise over maybe 2000 KM.

That's how it should be everywhere. That sounds awesome!

 

[Rory]

I think hands-free Blue Cruise is only available on divided limited-access highways. That may be the limiting factor, not a lack of mapping by Ford.

 

[GarageWarrior2023]

I think hands-free Blue Cruise is only available on divided limited-access highways. That may be the limiting factor, not a lack of mapping by Ford.

You're correct. But the same limitation applies to Chevy's SuperCruise, and they have most of canada mapped.

I think what I've been getting at is Chevy has a competing product and they have canada fully mapped, but Ford doesn't for their version. Ford should get on that haha.

 

[Le_Slacker]

Picked up my MME a week ago today - drove to Toronto on Thursday, and BC/hands free came up on 403 when i turned on cruise. Worked pretty good!
Came home via 401 and worked there as well

still going to need time to get used to!

 

[Mach-Lee]

You're correct. But the same limitation applies to Chevy's SuperCruise, and they have most of canada mapped.

I think what I've been getting at is Chevy has a competing product and they have canada fully mapped, but Ford doesn't for their version. Ford should get on that haha.

Super Cuise works on non-divided highways too. But I’m not sure if it’s hands free all the time.

 

[milepost1]

Works great all around the greater Toronto area. All the highways are mapped. Had it kick off a couple times on one corner when Toronto-bound on the QEW, right before the Burlington skyway bridge. No issues otherwise over maybe 2000 KM.

That is great if you live in Toronto and don't travel outside of Toronto. So your point is, he should move to Toronto where BC works great?

 

[GarageWarrior2023]

Super Cuise works on non-divided highways too. But I’m not sure if it’s hands free all the time.

My Experience with using SuperCruise is it requires divided highways and it will cut out at intersections and when crossing train tracks and make you take control. SuperCruise can do lane changes if you signal, which I think is another reason why it requires divided highways for safety reasons. Think lane change signal on a non-divided highway out into oncoming traffic, harder to have the vehicle process and understand the subtle differences and set safe limitations.

I don't have experience using BlueCruise, so I'm not sure if it's functionally the same as I described SuperCruise above. Can anyone clarify if BlueCruise operates roughly the same with the same limitations?

 

[Rory]

Super Cuise works on non-divided highways too. But I’m not sure if it’s hands free all the time.

And "Blue Cruise" works on all sorts of roads, but not hands-free. Is it an appearances issue? Does Super Cruise label all the roads it works on or just the ones on which it has hands-free-like experience? Ford only labels the hands-free roads.

 

[GarageWarrior2023]

And "Blue Cruise" works on all sorts of roads, but not hands-free. Is it an appearances issue? Does Super Cruise label all the roads it works on or just the ones on which it has hands-free-like experience? Ford only labels the hands-free roads.

I think you're confusing SuperCruise/BlueCruise and Active Lane Keep Assist.

Both Ford and GM only label roads where SuperCruise/BlueCruise can be used. For both of these, a subscription is required.

For unmapped roads, or all roads when no SuperCruise/BlueCruise subscription is present for your vehicle you can use Active Lane Keep Assist. For GM their version sucks and you float between road lines until it tells you to take the wheel. For Ford it's very good and feels almost like self driving, it will keep you centered in the lane and even take corners but it requires intermittent hand pressure/weight detected on the steering wheel to ensure you are "in control". Versus BlueCruise where you do not need hands on the wheel.

There's a very specific indicator from what I understand, the vehicle will tell you when you are on a BlueCruise enabled road and that's when you can enable it (being that I have no BlueCruise roads in my province I have never seen this indicator or used BlueCruise, but I have used the Active Lane Keep Assist a lot). This is no different with GM, it tells you when you are on a SuperCruise road and at that point you can enable it.

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