Ford’s BlueCruise 1.4 update lets you keep your hands off the wheel much longer

Ford is releasing a caller mentation of its hands-free driving BlueCruise software, mentation 1.4, which it claims volition fto you support your hands disconnected the instrumentality doubly arsenic long. In fact, the institution tells america it tin present tally connected mean 5 times longer compared to mentation 1.2 that rolled retired past year, and treble that of 1.3 which started rolling retired much recently. The institution doesn’t specify precisely however long, connected average.

The improvements travel acknowledgment to caller “motion controller” bundle that Ford says keeps your BlueCruise-equipped conveyance amended centered successful its lane, arsenic good arsenic improvements successful handling antithetic upwind conditions, choky curves, constrictive lanes, and withstanding reflections from the sun.

I precocious tested BlueCruise 1.2 successful a 2024 Lincoln Nautilus, and I felt it already operated smoothly successful choky curves. However, aft immoderate abrupt rainfall, the strategy did pass maine to enactment my hands backmost connected the wheel, truthful possibly mentation 1.4 could amended that situation.

BlueCruise 1.4 volition vessel with the caller 2025 Ford F-150 and the 2025 Lincoln Navigator to start, and it volition besides travel arsenic an over-the-air (OTA) bundle update “to prime conveyance lines successful the future.” Ford has not confirmed which vehicles volition get the OTA update, PR typical Whitney Pineda tells The Verge.

Consumer Reports ranks BlueCruise arsenic the top Advanced Driver Assistant System successful the marketplace close now, beating retired GM’s SuperCruise and Tesla’s Autopilot. Ford says 492,000 vehicles connected the roadworthy are equipped with BlueCruise worldwide.