So Bluecruise nearly got me into an accident earlier this week...

[Rapid Ed]

The other night, it actually started driving on the reflector pads in between the lanes for a few seconds, then it went just a tiny bit further to the right before disengaging itself. My hands were on my lap. I was definitely not overriding the wheel. (Traffic conditions were light.)

When the system detected the lane crossing problem, the LKA indicator turned red, alert tones played, and a red alert message appeared in the instrument cluster. If I recall, instead of words it showed an icon of a vehicle with large red angle brackets on its left and right. It all happened rather quickly (and went away quickly) so I can't recall for sure. Hands free driving remained disabled for at least several seconds more after this happened, but did turn back on afterward.

This happened to me with Blue Cruise once as well. It hit the line, crossed it briefly, but also knew it -- it went red on that side and played the alert tone. And that's just mystifying. I can kind of understand if the system was "confused" and couldn't recognize the line (it would not inspire confidence, I'm just saying I understand that logically). But, the car clearly knew where the line was yet crossed it (slightly) anyway .

Will also add in response to OP that when I am in the right lane and using Blue Cruise, the car will at least some of the time want to take the exits.

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[clsmooths]

Used Blue Criuse for the first time this week taking a small road trip. I've had the Pony for a month now and rarely used blue cruise because I do not travel on highways that recognize the blue cruise technology. Tell you what it's a great feature to have but yeah the system switches back and forth constantly from hands-free mode then HANDS ON WHEEL mode while my eyes are fixed on the highway. Ford has a lot of improvements to do with Blue cruise and hope they see our concerns and nearly causing a accident complaint.
I'm extremely concerned that Ford Motor CO has not ask for the original author of this thread to privately message them about that issue. THAT IS SCARY ABOUT THE CAR MOVING OVER SUDDENLY AND ALMOST HIITING ANOTHER VEHICLE AND FAVORING TO THE RIGHT. Now I'm really skeptical using Blue Cruise after hearing this.

 

[Mantastic]

Holding the wheel doesn't work for me. Either it will cancel out, or I'll do it and release it, and it'll go back to hugging the very right of a lane. Same deal if I manually exit cruise control, center my car, and then re-enter it.

As before, it's specific sections of freeway that it does this on, so that tells me that whatever mapping it's referencing must be a little off. I presume that means the mapping overrides it's own local sensors.

Still having issues with certain underpasses making it go wonky or cancelling out. I have noticed though that this only happens during daylight. No issues at night. Very strange.

 

[Mantastic]

Bumping this. A few months on and its still occurring. Short underpasses in daylight confuse its sensors and every now and then it will either lean towards the right, or violently jar towards the right. There are also instances where it will instantly demand I take back control.

Never a problem at night.

AFAIK my car has had no OTA updates since March.

 

[DevSecOps]

Bumping this. A few months on and its still occurring. Short underpasses in daylight confuse its sensors and every now and then it will either lean towards the right, or violently jar towards the right. There are also instances where it will instantly demand I take back control.

Never a problem at night.

AFAIK my car has had no OTA updates since March.

I suppose this is the first time you've had a car with lanekeep / bluecruise etc?

I've seen this happen with vehicles going back 10 years when my first Audi had it up until now my 2022 Audi still does it. Interestingly the MME doesn't do it nearly as bad as the Audi.

It's common on areas where there's a break to go into a turn lane. It just doesn't know which way to go. The easiest solution is not to drive in the slow lane (if it's a multi-lane freeway). Then you don't have the right hand side stripe move away into the turn lane.

In my last 10 years of having these systems it's far scarier when it's into the left lane than the right. I think the moral of the story is, it's not Full Self Driving and your attentiveness is still required.

Your issue at overpasses is because of the shadows. They sometimes cause the system to disengage or brake. This can also happen with shadows from Semi-Trucks. That's why it doesn't happen at night.

After a while you'll come to expect it to happen.

One that's happened to me twice, which is by far the scariest, is during a left hand turn with the emergency braking assist. 2 times I have had the system stop me dead in my tracks while crossing over the opposing lane thinking I was going to collide with oncoming traffic. That's the biggest oh-shit moment because you are stopped smack-dab in the middle of oncoming traffic.

 

[macchiaz-o]

One that's happened to me twice, which is by far the scariest, is during a left hand turn with the emergency braking assist. 2 times I have had the system stop me dead in my tracks while crossing over the opposing lane thinking I was going to collide with oncoming traffic. That's the biggest oh-shit moment because you are stopped smack-dab in the middle of oncoming traffic.

Holy S**T that would be super scary. Do you remember, were you using your turn signal?

I haven't had this happen yet and there are a couple scary left turns on my commute (due to traffic flow). But I am signalling so I'm wondering if that impacts the system's decisions.

These types of left turns were always scary on my Fiesta, before its transmission was finally good and properly fixed, because I didn't know if the car would sort of hesitate and feel like it was stalling during those maneuvers.

 

[DevSecOps]

Holy S**T that would be super scary. Do you remember, were you using your turn signal?

I haven't had this happen yet and there are a couple scary left turns on my commute (due to traffic flow). But I am signalling so I'm wondering if that impacts the system's decisions.

Both times it was in the same intersection which most people kinda veer to the left before turning so that the front of the car is more towards the opposing traffic flow. It's just because the actual area where you turn is so far forward of the lane break for turning. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I was signaling either time.

Where you are they almost all veer like that into opposing traffic. Every time I'm in your state it throws me off as to why they do that.

 

[nickloveslions]

Been using it regularly in my daily commute since there's quite a bit of straightforward freeway driving involved. For the most part, it's been nice aside from some quirks, notably how it constantly goes back and forth between hands free and needing to have hands on the wheel at random, and it's under-sensitive detection of your hands on said wheel (I gotta grip the thing pretty firmly on the sides or it barks at me).

That said, had a really scary moment a few days ago.

Out of nowhere, my car decided to veer to the right into an exit lane next to me where there was another car slightly ahead of me. Had I not immediately taken over, I would have collided into it's rear. The vehicle was in full hands free mode. I have no idea why it decided to do this outside of maybe the white paint stripe being really faded that separates the lanes throwing off the sensors, but it still should have detected the other vehicle there regardless.

Also, whenever I'm driving through underpasses, it also seems to want to lean to the right, especially if the road is curved to the left. Outside of the above instance, it doesn't do that otherwise. Related/unrelated?

Has anyone else experienced this?

Old post but mine favors center line and stopping inches behind cars the other drivers must think I’m gonna hit then gradually yet suddenly (makes sense if mme owner) stops, then leaves about about 50 feet to move behind said stopped car on green. I thought it was the lane distance thing but only works for me while moving. I don’t notice a difference after updates but had car a year only 2300 miles so I’m not in every traffic situation. Thought I just couldn’t drive these last 30 years lol. Turns out BC is a dick. Idk in an era where Elon and his flying teslas are rescuing astronauts from Starliner debacle. Guess a Boeing MME is out?

 

[nickloveslions]

Both times it was in the same intersection which most people kinda veer to the left before turning so that the front of the car is more towards the opposing traffic flow. It's just because the actual area where you turn is so far forward of the lane break for turning. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I was signaling either time.

Where you are they almost all veer like that into opposing traffic. Every time I'm in your state it throws me off as to why they do that.

Is there a ford dealership nearby maybe they’re trying to get your business through blue cruise …..lol just kidding I know it’s serious glad no one injured, sometimes I miss my manual 5.0 base with the four inch screen. But I love tech!111

 

[Space_Pony]

Both times it was in the same intersection which most people kinda veer to the left before turning so that the front of the car is more towards the opposing traffic flow. It's just because the actual area where you turn is so far forward of the lane break for turning. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I was signaling either time.

Where you are they almost all veer like that into opposing traffic. Every time I'm in your state it throws me off as to why they do that.

I thought that Bluecruise was only available on Freeways where there were no intersections, only ramps. I always pause Adaptive Cruise Control or Bluecruise in heavier traffic or near intersections. Now I know why.

 

[DevSecOps]

I thought that Bluecruise was only available on Freeways where there were no intersections, only ramps. I always pause Adaptive Cruise Control or Bluecruise in heavier traffic or near intersections. Now I know why.

I was talking about forward collision assist (or whatever xyz brand calls it) where the car thought that it was going to impact a vehicle coming the other direction and put the brakes on when attempting to cross traffic intentionally. This leaves you stopped in the oncoming traffic lanes.

Some areas have these weird turn lanes that veer towards oncoming traffic which can make the car think you're headed right at them. It has nothing to do with Bluecruise.

 

[Space_Pony]

I was talking about forward collision assist (or whatever xyz brand calls it) where the car thought that it was going to impact a vehicle coming the other direction and put the brakes on when attempting to cross traffic intentionally. This leaves you stopped in the oncoming traffic lanes.

Some areas have these weird turn lanes that veer towards oncoming traffic which can make the car think you're headed right at them. It has nothing to do with Bluecruise.

Oh, ok. I thought this thread was about Blue cruise.

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