Center lane calibration for BlueCruise?

[VegasMache]

Is there a way to check and or calibrate how the car determines center of lane while using blue cruise?

My car tends be right of center and I think that also increases confusion at off ramps.

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[RickMachE]

No.

While driving, if you correct and hold it, it will remember, but apparently only for that driving sesson.

 

[Jimbo]

While driving, if you correct and hold it, it will remember, but apparently only for that driving sesson.

Still don't believe that's true (for my car at least)

 

[SnBGC]

No.

While driving, if you correct and hold it, it will remember, but apparently only for that driving sesson.

So that feature still works after BC is installed and functioning?

It doesn't work anymore on my car but BC install failed so maybe I am stuck in the twilight zone.

 

[VegasMache]

I tried finding information on how the car is making decisions for lane centering and it's pretty obvious blue cruise is highly dependant on GPS. Which also explains the Ground Speed readout vs traditional speedometer. But it also likely relaying on mobileye to provide updated data. If my GPS data is solid, then it would seem the problem is mobileye having bad data from bad drivers before me...


Any ideas on how to check my gps strength? I didn't see it in any of the settings.

 

[Accord07]

So that feature still works after BC is installed and functioning?

It doesn't work anymore on my car but BC install failed so maybe I am stuck in the twilight zone.

With a Job 2 vehicle, I have had BlueCruise from day 1. Holding to correct has never worked for me; not only that, if I hold too close to the left lane marker (as I usually do when controlling the steering wheel), as soon as I let go BlueCruise would swing right so quickly that I thought it would cross the right lane marker but it never actually crossed it.

 

[Accord07]

I tried finding information on how the car is making decisions for lane centering and it's pretty obvious blue cruise is highly dependant on GPS. Which also explains the Ground Speed readout vs traditional speedometer.

You are reading way too much into "Ground Speed"!

 

[TRP]

You are reading way too much into "Ground Speed"!

Exactly. It's a play on the P51 Mustang airplane the car is named after

 

[RickMachE]

Ground speed is a label, nothing more. No GPS...

 

[VegasMache]

apparently we have a more than one pilot in the room.

maybe I just need more trim.

 

[SnBGC]

With a Job 2 vehicle, I have had BlueCruise from day 1. Holding to correct has never worked for me; not only that, if I hold too close to the left lane marker (as I usually do when controlling the steering wheel), as soon as I let go BlueCruise would swing right so quickly that I thought it would cross the right lane marker but it never actually crossed it.

So perhaps the "tracking to driver preference" feature of Lane Centering is a casualty of BC? Unfortunate if true.


Anyone else with BC and a working LC that tracks where you place the car in the lane? We all know it worked fine before BC.....

 

[mpshizzle]

I tried finding information on how the car is making decisions for lane centering and it's pretty obvious blue cruise is highly dependant on GPS. Which also explains the Ground Speed readout vs traditional speedometer. But it also likely relaying on mobileye to provide updated data. If my GPS data is solid, then it would seem the problem is mobileye having bad data from bad drivers before me...


Any ideas on how to check my gps strength? I didn't see it in any of the settings.

Ground speed is just a style thing. Been there since 2015 (IIRC)as a callback to the original mustangs in the 60s with their "aviation inspired" styling.

As far as GPS goes, it is not used for lane centering. It's used to determine if you are on a BC road, and roughly where you are (so it knows when you're on a section of road with a curve that requires hands on).

The actual lane centering is handled by the camera. So if calibration is off it'd be something there..

As for my personal experience, both before and after the BC update, my car has NEVER let me choose the position in the lane. As soon as I let go, it immediately goes back to where it was.. that being said, if I leave it alone, after about 30 seconds it'll usually find it's way back to center

 

[Aye Aye Ron]

You are reading way too much into "Ground Speed"!

For there to be a "Ground Speed" lable implies that there is "Air Speed" also!

 

[Jim Guthry]

It's never accepted my comfort level of where "center" is either. Correcting it involves actively fighting with it (it's trying to pull right while I'm pulling left). I don't mind so much in stop and go traffic speeds, but I'm not comfortable with it at highway speeds where cars are frequently nearby. Empty highway is fine.

Ford engineers if you're listening, we don't need to be straddling the right line if we're driving in the far left fast lane, FFS.

 

[kennelh]

Anyone else with BC and a working LC that tracks where you place the car in the lane? We all know it worked fine before BC.....

It didn't work for me before BC, or after.

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