Apr 23, 2021
Class 8 self-driving company TuSimple is taking its time with testing and why not? Nobody wants bad headlines particularly carriers, some of whom have been hit with record nuclear verdicts.
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A Tesla crash on Saturday in Texas that claimed the lives of two men, one of them being a doctor, has stirred up legitimate concerns about self-driving technology.
These concerns, however, should be governed by facts which will continue to arise as investigations continue with Texas officials, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
What’s already come into question, according to the Houston Chronicle, is whether the 2019 Tesla Model S owned by 59-year-old Dr. William Varner was actually in self-driving mode when it ran off the road, crashed into a tree and caught fire killing Varner and his 69-year-old friend Everette Talbot in a gated community north of Houston.
Ford Mustang Mach-E Named IIHS Top Safety Pick
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Add yet another major piece of hardware to the Mustang Mach-E’s trophy case. The all-new Ford Mustang Mach-E has earned the Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, making it an even smarter bet.
Ford’s popular new electric vehicle earned good ratings in the six phases of IIHS crash testing: driver- and passenger-side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength, and head restraints. The Mustang Mach-E just missed out on earning the IIHS’ highest honor, the Top Safety Pick+. To achieve that mark, it would have needed acceptable or good headlight scores for all trims. The Mustang Mach-E California Route 1 fell just below that threshold with marginal ratings.
Ford Tested BlueCruise on ‘Mother of All Road Trips’
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Ford’s newly rechristened BlueCruise hands-free driving technology is coming later this year. To make sure that drivers can use it with full confidence when it drops, Ford tested BlueCruise on what it calls the “mother of all road trips.”
Last year, five all-new Ford F-150s and five Mustang Mach-Es hit the road, covering 110,000 miles across North America completely hands-free. This road trip tested out the BlueCruise Hands-Free Blue Zones in 37 states and five provinces in Canada. The goal was to see how the tech holds up in adverse conditions like bad weather tough traffic.
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Ford Hands-Free System Now Called BlueCruise
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Later this year, Ford will roll out its new hands-free driving technology for the 2021 Ford F-150 and Mustang Mach-E. That groundbreaking feature will now go by a different, better name: BlueCruise. Hey, Ford. Quick note here: If you don’t put together a commercial for this thing in the style of
Blue’s Clues, what are you even doing?
BlueCruise, formerly Active Drive Assist, comes to 2021 F-150 and Mustang Mach-Es equipped with the Ford Co-Pilot360 Active 2.0 Prep Package. The technology will come via over-the-air updates, marking one of the first major software upgrades for vehicles with SYNC 4. Ford says that planned future over-the-air updates include Predictive Speed Assist and a Lane Change Assist feature that automatically switches lanes when you tap the turn signal indicator.