Weāll be lucky if the Early Access VIP - Platinum Club Level members get it by the end of the month.
As I said, there'll be 1-2 people, and lost likely, they'll be hand-done, either at a dealership via FDRS, or via Ford engineers with some kind of magic equipment. I seriously doubt that wide-spread BlueCruise OTA is happening to all Job 1 cars prior to 31 March 2022.
What are job1 cars?
It is and it will. Itāll happen slower than many peopleās revised expectations and some may be discouraged by, or angry with, that. But it will get released. I donāt have a pony in this race as Iāll never get BlueCruise (zero eligible roads), so Iām going to just say, āCan we get the darn remote/electronic Frunk release already?ā
I think itāll be more than that but not enough to call it āwidespreadā (whatever that means) by the end of the month. Iām positive the reason is that theyāre devoting massive resources to pushing the electronic Frunk release simultaneously with BC.
I can completely understand how Blue Cruise would be a complicated several step almost surgical update, but how can the frunk be that hard? There have already been updates out there that have the button showing up in the app or on the screen. We just need the update for whatever module controls that latch.
The ājustā part is probably where the rub is. Nothing is ever as simple as it looks or seems. Honestly as well, Iām no longer sure Ford ever promised theyād upgrade the cars without the remote release. We all think that but, did they actually say it? In writing and in an official communique? If so, is it still in the works? The cars are a year old now. Not much has been upgraded or improved and, thanks to lacking patch notes, we have no idea if any bugs that matter to the end user have actually been fixed. Beyond BlueCruise, which Iām positive will be rolled out, we might be in a āwhat you bought is what youāre going to haveā mode. But Iām a notorious pessimist, so take that with a very small grain of salt.
They did actually. Donna Dickson, Chief Engineer of the Mach-E said it in a video with Sandy Munro.
Not good enough. It needs to be an official communication that hasnāt been backtracked. Conversations, tweets and the like are regularly walked back or ignored, and not just by Ford. But we wonāt mention the King of stupid ass ignored promises, Elon, by name will we?
Yup. And nothing since? Not even a hint? And multiple different versions of implementation on cars with the same update. Iām not going to hold my breath over this one, even though itās an update Iād genuinely like to receive.
The bulletin is pretty officialā¦ Iām fairly certain it would probably come with BlueCruise.
BlueCruise has missed two or three (Iāve honestly lost count) promised deadlines already. The fact that Ford hasnāt said a word about an updated timeline regarding the Frunk release on Job 1 cars means:
But you werenāt talking about when it would come outā¦ you asked if there was anything official from Ford just saying that they are giving it to Job 1 cars. Whether they follow through, is a different discuss altogether. But itās been pretty officially said they planned to.
