Ford’s BlueCruise 1.5, which will launch in the 2025 Mustang Mach-E, will introduce a new automatic lane change feature, developed by the Ford Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) team “to help make hands-free highway driving even better”.
Ford states that, on an average drive, BlueCruise 1.5 will automate up to 45% of lane changes. BlueCruise can perform a single lane change when it detects a clear adjacent lane and there is enough time to perform the maneuver. But before BlueCruise makes the lane change, a visual and audio prompt will alert the driver. A hands-free lane change will automatically occur unless the driver taps the turn signal in the opposite direction of the planned lane change or holds the steering wheel in place.
BlueCruise hands-free highway driving was first introduced on the Mustang Mach-E. After rolling out BlueCruise 1.0 from the factory, Ford launched BlueCruise 1.2 with new features and then the BlueCruise 1.3 with performance improvements around curves and in narrow lanes.
Ford will announce later further models that will benefit from BlueCruise 1.5.
