This is what progress looks like. It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction. People forget it took Tesla 10 years to get AutoPilot to where it is today and the self driving is still not available everywhere either. Glad to see Ford, Porsche, GM, and others making strides as well.
@@Gltokensp06 Tesla didn't make the autopilot system, they had a partnership with mobile-eye from 2014 - 2016 until a fatal crash involving it motivated tesla to ditch them and go in-house on the 2017 models and above
To turn it on you simply engage cruise control and have lane assistance turned on. It automatically engages then when available. Assuming you have it turned on in settings but it is by default.
As to adapting to traffic it pretty much acts like a standard autopilot Tesla in stop and go except no hands. If you stay stopped for more than like 60+ seconds it requires you to manually re-engage cruise control.
I think for small vehicles like cars and 1/4 trucks full electric systems will work fine but for heavy duty vehicles I think the future will be propane or hydrogen fuel cell because it would take 2 to 3 small electric motors to run a heavy duty truck plus a ridiculous amount of batteries to where the cost to purchase would be too high for most fleet managers to consider to be honest it might just be hybrid engines for most fleets for a while meaning a gas engine and using the regenerative braking to power the batteries.
I got to drive blue cruise for a week and had to wonder what the heck is wrong with the company they bought to do this for them. It was great when it worked, but being taken out of cruise for every gentle curve was extremely annoying. I also couldn't get the car to stop at traffic control or do ramps n such. I hope they get the software updates Teslas gets eventually. And can we vote for auto lane change to be released and not be boxed in to blue zones?
I feel it's a little ridiculous to call an autonomous driving system "not perfect" in 2021. It's freaking driving itself! Other than Tesla who else is doing it? Of course it's not perfect, but at this stage who expects it to be?
Toyota's adaptive cruise control on all their Toyota Safety Sense vehicles is basically same as blue cruise except you have to keep your hands (or just 1 hand) on the wheel (you can take your hands off for like 10-15 seconds before being told to touch the wheel again). It maintains the lane, steers, and will automatically speed up (either to your top set speed or until a set distance is reached between you and the car ahead), slow down, or break if need be. Makes freeway driving incredibly easy. I'm sure a few other car makers have similar feature.
That is correct. With nav enabled there is no "hands free" with the steering wheel icon. The whole cluster turns blue and the lane assist indicator also turns blue to let you know.
I drove my Mach-E for the first time Saturday. I couldn't take my hands off the wheel without getting warning after about ten seconds. Is there a setting that I can change or does it have to be in navigation to avoid the warnings?
@@breeves002 wow I wonder how it knows. is it related with the head position, I mean if you leave your head straight and just turn your eyes with your mirrored shades, will it notice?
None of the automatic systems are perfect. Most people reference Tesla as in a better system while overlooking the many deaths related to autonomous driving.
Agreed. The advantage to this system, while it may not work quite as well as Teslas, is that it forces the driver to keep their eyes physically on the road making it less likely for those accidents we've seen in Teslas to happen.
@@breeves002 Yeah, better capabilities will be nice but a system to force you to pay attention to the road no matter how capable is an important step in safety until the technology is thoroughly refined enough to actually trust it 99.9% of situations years down the road.
personally, when i get into a car all i want to see is a steering wheel, speedometer, gas pedal, clutch, stick shift. I all this other crap, the screens, the navigation, the cameras, i think it's pure nonsense. the auto industry is inventing demand for shit that doesn't exist, at least for me.
@@Network-Mike to remind myself how much i'm going to miss my 2006 mazda 3 hatchback, stick, no cameras, screens, blueballs, and whatever other nonsense they've been making up these last 15 years..
@@garrettw99 my fancy bosh gas oven, touch screen, programmable, blah, blah, blah, ... , has started turning itself on at night. and i'm going on vacation here shortly. great. i can only imagine all the crap that's going to stop working in these EVs and how much it's going to cost. i wish i had my old oven with mechanical knobs, and a pack of matches to light the flame.
With even that much deviation from being in the center of the lane i personally would NEVER risk my life with such systems. Screw that!. now ive seen Tesla latest, and its very VERY rock solid. but even so i wouldnt fully trust it enought during roads that turn. crashing at such speeds are far too dramatic.
