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Following the lead of Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot and General Motors Co.’s Super Cruise, Ford Motor Co. has telegraphed a semi-autonomous, active-drive-assist feature available with its 2021 Ford F-150 pickup and electric Mustang Mach-E. Now that system has a name: BlueCruise. Blue as in the colorful highlights in the instrument panel that indicate BlueCruise is available for hands-free driving on 100,000 miles of divided highways that Ford has mapped across North America. The feature, now available for purchase, will be activated by an over-the-air update on properly-equipped vehicles i...

by Jake LingemanTechnology The company has clocked more than 100,000 miles in real world testing. Tesla has Full-Self Driving, Cadillac has Super Cruise, and now Ford has proven its own hand-free driving system, calling it BlueCruise. Ford put a half-million miles of development testing into the system, and just finished another 110,000-mile journey to test the system in the real world. It called the test, the Mother of All Road Trips; it included five F-150s, five Mach-Es, and covered 37 states plus five Canadian provinces. The tech isn't available yet, but if you...

Ford Tests Self-Driving Software on ‘Mother of All Road Trips’ 5 hours ago Ford is laying down the gauntlet in the self-driving arena, declaring its BlueCruise software has completed the “Mother of All Road Trips.” Self-driving vehicles are the next great frontier for the automotive industry. Virtually all of the major players are working on self-driving and autonomous driving systems. Ford is working on its self-driving software, BlueCruise, and has even gone so far as to call Tesla’s competing system vaporware. BlueCruise is a Level 2 technology. Autonomous driving is rated on a s...

Many people worldwide are looking forward to a future with vehicles that feature autonomous driving technologies. Autonomous driving technologies claim to be safer and more convenient for drivers and passengers inside the vehicle. Ford has a new hands-free highway driving system called BlueCruise that will be available to customers later this year. Its creation has required about 500,000 miles of development and fine-tuning. Last year, Ford sent a fleet of 10 test vehicles, including five F-150 pickups and five Mach-E SUVs, on a journey across the US and Canada that it called the “Mother of...