BlueCruise 1.4 is *officially* rolling out

[Ford Motor Company]

Hi F-150 Lightning owners, BlueCruise 1.4 is "officially" here and rolling out to 2022-2024 F-150 Lightning vehicles equipped with BlueCruise via an over-the-air software update.

Depending on the model year, the software update will take eligible owners from BlueCruise 1.0 or 1.2 all the way to BlueCruise 1.4. As a result of BlueCruise 1.4, you will experience:

• Longer engagement in hands-free mode for a more continuous experience on the highway — around tighter curves, for example – with fewer interruptions requiring you to put your hands on the wheel.
• Greater in-lane stability and less side-to-side movement within the lane. In fact, BlueCruise 1.4 reduces deviations from the center of the lane by nearly 80% from version 1.0, based on internal testing.

If you have BlueCruise 1.0, it is important to know that with BlueCruise 1.4 you will also experience:

• The ability to make a hands-free lane change on the highway when the path is clear simply by tapping your turn signal with Lane Change Assist.
• More space when driving next to a large semi-truck with In-Lane Repositioning, which subtly shifts your vehicle within its lane.

BlueCruise 1.4 is also shipping from the factory on 2025 F-150 Lightning. We have already rolled out BlueCruise 1.3 to 2021-2023 Mustang Mach-E vehicles.

You may say that I'm late to the party, but there's good reason. To help ensure a smooth and successful software rollout, our process is to send software updates by model years within each vehicle line. This is because every model year is unique and requires a different software package, involving complex updates to multiple system modules and in-vehicle display screens.

We hope you enjoy BlueCruise 1.4 – let me know what you think.

Happy BlueCruisin’,
Brian, not AI, from Ford

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[MachLightning]

Got mine a few weeks back. I absolutely LOVE it. Thank you Ford for the continued development and support!!

Ford customer for life.

 

[RocketGhost]

Can you speak more about the OTA update process? I understand doing it by model year and not sending updates to everyone all at once - for example, if there's an error in the update you don't want it to hit everyone. But why does it take months - or longer - for everyone to get an update? Is it an issue of server capacity? And how does it decide which trucks within a model year get an update first? Is is random?

I would think that if an update is sent to a few trucks and everything seems fine after a few weeks, there's no reason to not then just push it to everyone else.

As you are aware from the forum, software updates is a big complaint. We may be more understanding if we knew how the process works behind the scenes in greater detail.

 

[Ford Motor Company]

Can you speak more about the OTA update process? I understand doing it by model year and not sending updates to everyone all at once - for example, if there's an error in the update you don't want it to hit everyone. But why does it take months - or longer - for everyone to get an update? Is it an issue of server capacity? And how does it decide which trucks within a model year get an update first? Is is random?

I would think that if an update is sent to a few trucks and everything seems fine after a few weeks, there's no reason to not then just push it to everyone else.

As you are aware from the forum, software updates is a big complaint. We may be more understanding if we knew how the process works behind the scenes in greater detail.

Let me see if I can get you an answer on this.

 

[Lytning]

@Ford Motor Company,

Thank you for the update. I hope to see BlueCruise 1.4 soon. I have been avoiding use of the unsafe, lane-swerving, disfunctional BlueCruise 1.0 for 38 months. BlueCruise 1.4 functionality is what I expected and paid for when I purchased my new Lightning in 2022.

For the future, Ford would improve customer service by proactively communicating the "You may say I'm late to the party" information during the wait to explain the wait. Especially for a function which was expected at the time of purchase and not delivered satisfactorily to the customer.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Lytning

 

[Ford Motor Company]

@Ford Motor Company,

Thank you for the update. I hope to see BlueCruise 1.4 soon. I have been avoiding use of the unsafe, lane-swerving, disfunctional BlueCruise 1.0 for 38 months. BlueCruise 1.4 functionality is what I expected and paid for when I purchased my new Lightning in 2022.

For the future, Ford would improve customer service by proactively communicating the "You may say I'm late to the party" information during the wait to explain the wait. Especially for a function which was expected at the time of purchase and not delivered satisfactorily to the customer.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Lytning

The feedback is always good for me to pass along to the powers that be - so in a way it is helpful. Hoping that an update initiates for you soon.

Your favorite human carrier pigeon,
Brian

 

[SMMD]

Brian, not AI, you have my deepest respect. I imagine your job is challenging to say the least. Thank you for the official update and know that we appreciate what you do and what you are trying to do for us.

 

[Ford Motor Company]

Brian, not AI, you have my deepest respect. I imagine your job is challenging to say the least. Thank you for the official update and know that we appreciate what you do and what you are trying to do for us.

 

[I <3 My Lightning]

I feel like we are pals now, I'm now calling you Big Bri not AI... Do you have an office pool on what the responses will be when you post stuff?

Kidding aside will this still roll out to us impoverished owners with just copilot 2.0 to help improve not running over textaholics walking in our pathways in a parking lot and helping with lane centering next to big rigs? I really hate having to fight my lane centering when I pass big rigs or vice versa where I purposely like to hug the opposite line if clear.

 

[theawesomegamer]

Can you speak more about the OTA update process? I understand doing it by model year and not sending updates to everyone all at once - for example, if there's an error in the update you don't want it to hit everyone. But why does it take months - or longer - for everyone to get an update? Is it an issue of server capacity? And how does it decide which trucks within a model year get an update first? Is is random?

I would think that if an update is sent to a few trucks and everything seems fine after a few weeks, there's no reason to not then just push it to everyone else.

As you are aware from the forum, software updates is a big complaint. We may be more understanding if we knew how the process works behind the scenes in greater detail.

I'm not sure excatly how it works-- and I still have the same questions about the limitations as you. I've talked to Ford OTA (My truck was a beta truck, fleet locked, etc) so I haven't gotten any OTA updates. I'm working with them to try and fix it. But, anyhow they mentioned the "Wave Cycle" which rolls out the OTA updates to the trucks. I don't entirely understand the system, but I know that it rolls the updates slowly out to people's VINs. I'm still stuck on 1.0.

 

[Ford Motor Company]

I feel like we are pals now, I'm now calling you Big Bri not AI... Do you have an office pool on what the responses will be when you post stuff?

Kidding aside will this still roll out to us impoverished owners with just copilot 2.0 to help improve not running over textaholics walking in our pathways in a parking lot and helping with lane centering next to big rigs? I really hate having to fight my lane centering when I pass big rigs or vice versa where I purposely like to hug the opposite line if clear.

To the best of my knowledge, the "general improvements" go beyond BC1.4! Let me know if it comes your way and what you notice.

 

[MrH42]

This whole rollout has been confusing to say the least. I do not envy you Brian, but I really appreciate what you're doing, thank you!

It seems like I received the 1.4 update, but did not have the toggles available for turn on lane change assist, etc. Then I received an update that gave me those toggles, but still do not have the function, likely because I'm missing a BCM update?

Seems like you need to have the holy grail of updates across 40 modules for the feature to work. I consider myself at least pretty tech literate, but you have to spend a lot of time on this forum to even understand whether a feature will work or not.

Any clarity that Ford could provide here would be greatly appreciated. It's strange to receive multiple updates claiming the same new features over and over, and yet still not have it available.

 

[Diamond lightning]

This whole rollout has been confusing to say the least. I do not envy you Brian, but I really appreciate what you're doing, thank you!

It seems like I received the 1.4 update, but did not have the toggles available for turn on lane change assist, etc. Then I received an update that gave me those toggles, but still do not have the function, likely because I'm missing a BCM update?

Seems like you need to have the holy grail of updates across 40 modules for the feature to work. I consider myself at least pretty tech literate, but you have to spend a lot of time on this forum to even understand whether a feature will work or not.

Any clarity that Ford could provide here would be greatly appreciated. It's strange to receive multiple updates claiming the same new features over and over, and yet still not have it available.

I also received the update this week, but the toggles for both in lane repositioning and lane change assist will not turn on or at least will not stay on. Would love some information on how to get these updates to actually function.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

This is because every model year is unique


Dev 101, don't do this.....

 

[TechnoSwiss]

Also got mine a while back, I have to say though, in-lane stability seems WORSE than it was with 1.2, but I definitely get more hands-free time on my route.

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