BlueCruise: When will Canada be fully mapped and usable?

[Rory]

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

At least for Blue Cruise I'm not confusing it: Ford uses confusing terminology. Active Lane Assist with hands on wheel is labeled "Blue Cruise" by Ford. Hands-off is also labeled Blue Cruise. Making it worse, Ford will prompt you to engage cruise control to enable Blue Cruise, but only when Blue Cruise hands free is available.

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[GarageWarrior2023]

I did some digging and yes you're right, at some point it appears Ford rebranded Lane Keep Assist to BlueCruise and then tagged on "hands-free zones" as the Hands-Free BlueCruise that requires a subscription.

To be clear then, I'm talking about "Hands-Free BlueCruise". Ford has mapped nearly all of the US and yet almost none of Canada. As where GM has mapped nearly all of the US and Canada for hands-free SuperCruise.

 

[Geep]

Blue cruise looks at our Canadian roads and says NFW

 

[DigitalN]

I live up in Edmonton and for me to travel to Jasper I can use it for a whopping 2% of the trip... Glad I only have a free preview, that's pretty rough. I guess I'll make an investment into a Comma3 instead.

 

[Womps]

On my Cadillac Optiq Super Cruise basically works on all highways in Alberta as long as it’s a numbered highway Including 2 lane highways. If you are on a 4 lane it will also do automatic lane changes. It will warn you and cut out crossing railroad tracks and intersections. It is far superior to the Blue Cruise in my Mach E.

 

[Jeff-NoVA]

Blue cruise looks at our Canadian roads and says NFW

Ha, go drive in Michigan, home of Ford. The roads are, and have for decades been, absolutely atrocious.

 

[FreeJAC]

On a 2022 GTPE if the build sheet says Blue Cruise is included , does that mean it's included as I would expect or does it still require a subscription?

 

[RickMachE]

On a 2022 GTPE if the build sheet says Blue Cruise is included , does that mean it's included as I would expect or does it still require a subscription?

All BC requires a subscription. It travels with the vehicle, not the owner, so it may be active.

 

[MWMME]

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.

Nope the limiting factor is ford not bothering to map anything. Plenty of divided highway between Edmonton and Jasper that Blue Cruise is most definitely not available on. I’ve been waiting 4 years for more to be added…

 

[Naldo]

Get a Comma 4, no subscriptions and better features than the OEM Blue Cruise

 

[celestial_knight]

On my Cadillac Optiq Super Cruise basically works on all highways in Alberta as long as it’s a numbered highway Including 2 lane highways. If you are on a 4 lane it will also do automatic lane changes. It will warn you and cut out crossing railroad tracks and intersections. It is far superior to the Blue Cruise in my Mach E.

2025+ BlueCruise capable can drive unmapped almost as well as mapped anywhere there are lane lines

in the US we have the opposite problem; despite GM's mapping, they have not mapped all of the roads and Blue Cruise is far superior

 

[AZBill]

2025+ BlueCruise capable can drive unmapped almost as well as mapped anywhere there are lane lines

in the US we have the opposite problem; despite GM's mapping, they have not mapped all of the roads and Blue Cruise is far superior

Sorry but the latest GM Super Cruise works on all roads with hands on steering and has 5X the number of hands free mapped roads. It even works hands free on some local streets with 35mph speed limits. The lane changes also follow the navigation and it works hands free on interchanges. BC is not superior.

 

[celestial_knight]

Sorry but the latest GM Super Cruise works on all roads with hands on steering and has 5X the number of hands free mapped roads. It even works hands free on some local streets with 35mph speed limits. The lane changes also follow the navigation and it works hands free on interchanges. BC is not superior.

GM is a map focused philosophy, and while Ford is sensor focused

So it is likely that Ford's BlueCruise's 1.5 hands on unmapped lane centering is still superior. There's a reason GM has been so reluctant to bring hands on lane centering to the public

You talked about curve speeds earlier in another thread. Well BlueCruise 1.5 slows for curves, on unmapped roads

It seems you are not familiar with modern BlueCruise, in fairness a recent and rare invention. But GM is even more recent and even more rare, and is yet to prove itself. GM definitely was hopeless as recently as this past year, yet you were claiming otherwise. I wish they were good

 

[Maquis]

Sorry but the latest GM Super Cruise works on all roads with hands on steering and has 5X the number of hands free mapped roads. It even works hands free on some local streets with 35mph speed limits. The lane changes also follow the navigation and it works hands free on interchanges. BC is not superior.

Agree. In my locale, GM is far superior. It’s almost embarrassing when I ride with a fried in a GM vehicle.

 

[AZBill]

GM is a map focused philosophy, and while Ford is sensor focused

So it is likely that Ford's BlueCruise's 1.5 hands on unmapped lane centering is still superior. There's a reason GM has been so reluctant to bring hands on lane centering to the public

You talked about curve speeds earlier in another thread. Well BlueCruise 1.5 slows for curves, on unmapped roads

It seems you are not familiar with modern BlueCruise, in fairness a recent and rare invention. But GM is even more recent and even more rare, and is yet to prove itself. GM definitely was hopeless as recently as this past year, yet you were claiming otherwise. I wish they were good

I drive both BC and SC, here are features that GM has that Ford does not:

- Hands free on any mapped highway, even with only two lanes
- Hands free in tunnels
- Hands free when towing
- Hands free on highway interchanges
- Moves over for cars merging from the on ramp of a highway
- Moves over for disabled or emergency vehicles on the highway shoulder
- When there is a merging of two lanes, it moves over ahead of time automatically
- When passing a car, if a faster vehicle approaches from behind, it speeds up to complete the pass and get out of the way
- The curve speed reduction is just right, versus the too conservative approach Ford has.
- The hands free roads are highlilghted on the navigation, so you can see when it will hand over control. For example, when approaching an intersection with a light or stop sign. Plus it posts a message to take control before the intersection.
- With MY 26 vehicles it can basically drive on ramp to off ramp with no driver intervention, following the navigation.

As far as perfomance the lane centering for SC is better than BC, much more solid and does not get lost when one line is missing.

I have a 23 Hummer EV with SC and a 26 Escalade IQ with SC, both are excellent as compared to the Mach E, which is average.

I do not really care about hands on as much as you do, but the hands on with the Escalade works as good as the hands on on the Mach E. I drive Phoenx to Vegas about twice a year, With my Hummer 93% of the trip is hands free. With the Mach E 24% is hands free. Big difference. And the 7% part includes areas with roundabouts, where hands on autosteer is not even safe to use

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