Using only adaptive cruise control in a blue cruise area?

[Mach-Lee]

I have prescription polarized mirrored sunglasses, and they have never been an issue for Bluecruise eye tracking. Smiling and laughing has been. Maybe your cheeks are in the way? Or it doesn't like narrower eyes?

Mirrored sunglasses do block some IR and are known to cause issues with eye tracking cameras as a result. Perhaps your specific glasses don't block as much IR, but other people with mirrored glasses have had problems. The official recommendation is to use traditionally tinted sunglasses for BlueCruise (gray/tan basic tints). My recommendation is also to avoid mirrored sunglasses, and just buy a traditional pair to keep in the Mach-E.

I don't think smiling would affect the camera unless you are also tilting your head back or squinting your eyes or something when you smile or laugh. Or it's possible you have the camera at an extreme angle where your face is almost out of frame. I've observed some people have their steering column and/or seat back set at extreme angles which will impair driver monitoring performance. Seat leaned back like a recliner or steering wheel pointed at your belly will do it.

Narrow Asian eyes are a known issue with eye tracking cameras because there isn't as much exposed iris for the camera to track. The recent CMR update that improves robustness should help with that.

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[thekat03]

Narrow Asian eyes are a known issue with eye tracking cameras because there isn't as much exposed iris for the camera to track. The recent CMR update that improves robustness should help with that.

That's probably why it fusses at me. Non-smiling face has more open eyes than smiling face. I am probably on the edge of narrow eyes. I am glad to hear they're improving this.

 

[cheerioboy26]

Hi, thank you for all of the suggestions. For me, I am Caucasian and don't wear sunglasses, so they weren't applicable to me. In the menus, I only see the option to switch from adaptive cruise control, to regular (old-school?) cruise control so that isn't what I was looking for.

Turning off lane centering worked for me...the car was aware of and responsive to the vehicles directly in front, and the speed would adjust accordingly, including going back up if it was lower and I switched lanes manually.

I do wear regular classes, with no coatings other than scratch resistance, so I will wonder if the sun reflecting off the hood, into my glasses, may have fooled the nanny on Saturday. I drove about 90 minutes in the sun yesterday, but it was earlier in the morning and BC worked fine, so I only turned off lane centering as a temporary test. BC also worked fine on my return in the dark.

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