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[NY_Cade69]

The Blue Zones - the geofence within which Ford permits Hands Free BlueCruise - are divided highways. It’s this division in the highway that gives Ford enough comfort to go hands free from a liability standpoint. That’s it.

Exactly! (but not all divided highways) And, it is Ford that has the sole ability to make that decision.

@Ford Motor Company could chime in to agree with me as well, yet I know that a lack of response is not agreement, nor is it disagreement.

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[AZBill]

Lane Keeping is 100% exclusively an optical function provided by the single MobileEye camera. That’s all there is to it. It is not a function of mapping or confidence.

The Lidar based maps do have a "picture" of the roads being driven on. That contains data such as lane markings, number of lanes, curvature, intersection, on/off ramps, merging or splitting lanes, etc. The lane markings from the Lidar maps can be overlaid (basically shift them to line up) on the lanes detected by the camera, to provide improved information, and also a safety cross check. The two pictures can be merged, this is called sensor fusion. See this article.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/19/6033

Once the manufacturers add a Lidar sensor to the vehicles, then they can merge the camera view with the Lidar view in the same way, but the Lidar sensor data will be exactly relative to the vehicle, not up to 3 meters off. The Lidar maps are currently used in place of an actual Lidar sensor, to save cost, but those sensors are getting cheaper and are starting to be installed.

I know that GM uses this company to provide the Lidar based maps, but not sure who Ford uses. GM allows hands free on 2 lane roads and on roads with intersections, but they inhibit automatic lane changes on those roads.

https://dmp-maps.com/products/products-services/

 

[SonicBlue]

The Lidar based maps do have a "picture" of the roads being driven on. That contains data such as lane markings, number of lanes, curvature, intersection, on/off ramps, merging or splitting lanes, etc. The lane markings from the Lidar maps can be overlaid (basically shift them to line up) on the lanes detected by the camera, to provide improved information, and also a safety cross check. The two pictures can be merged, this is called sensor fusion. See this article.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/19/6033

Once the manufacturers add a Lidar sensor to the vehicles, then they can merge the camera view with the Lidar view in the same way, but the Lidar sensor data will be exactly relative to the vehicle, not up to 3 meters off. The Lidar maps are currently used in place of an actual Lidar sensor, to save cost, but those sensors are getting cheaper and are starting to be installed.

I know that GM uses this company to provide the Lidar based maps, but not sure who Ford uses. GM allows hands free on 2 lane roads and on roads with intersections, but they inhibit automatic lane changes on those roads.

https://dmp-maps.com/products/products-services/

Just this last weekend I was driving BlueCruise Hands Free through a coned-off one-lane highway that was diverted to the other side of the median for construction. BlueCruise didn’t notice or care. All it cares about is whether I’m within the geofence. And I was. The MobileEye optical system does 100% of the lifting for Lane Keep Assist.

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