"Watch the road" and "resume control" are driving me crazy

[swindler]

My wife has a 24 non hybrid Reserve 1 and it only came with 90 days of Blue Cruise

I just double checked. You're right, of course. The 2024 Order Guide does say 90 days for R1.

 

[CliffDiver]

My wife has a 24 non hybrid Reserve 1 and it only came with 90 days of Blue Cruise

I agree. I misinterpreted the Order Guide a bit. But in my defense, the order guide mis-identifies Premier II as a Reserve car in the chart that discusses this.

Premier I and Reserve I got 90 days BlueCruise. The rest got 4 years. In 2024.

 

[G-804374]

I bought a 2024 Nautilus about 5 weeks ago. The Blue Cruise free period just ran out this week. I thought this was a Blue Cruise problem but it's still happening with regular old adaptive cruise. While I'm driving, I might be drinking coffee, or reading the road signs for my next exit, or checking my rearview. I get frequent warnings to "watch the road." If the car doesn't think I'm watching the road intently enough, it then escalates to "resume control." Once this warning is issued, the only fix is to tap the brakes or turn off cruise control. It is far more distracting for me to reset the cruise than whatever infraction my nanny car observed in me. Today I tested what would happen if I refused to disable the cruise. I already knew the car would progressively jerk and slow until I did something. To my surprise the car activated the emergency flashers. Now I'm driving slow on the interstate and frantically searching for the emergency flashers button. This was not only embarrassing but really distracting and dangerous. I ended up finishing the trip without using the cruise. How is this an improvement over the original invention of plain old cruise control? TLDR: Is there anyway to disable this cascade of warnings or to lower the sensitivity of the sensor? Call me a Luddite, but I'm about ready to return the car.

Try cleaning the lens of the camera looking at you just above steering wheel, it looks like black shiny plastic

 

[joewaked]

I bought a 2024 Nautilus about 5 weeks ago. The Blue Cruise free period just ran out this week. I thought this was a Blue Cruise problem but it's still happening with regular old adaptive cruise. While I'm driving, I might be drinking coffee, or reading the road signs for my next exit, or checking my rearview. I get frequent warnings to "watch the road." If the car doesn't think I'm watching the road intently enough, it then escalates to "resume control." Once this warning is issued, the only fix is to tap the brakes or turn off cruise control. It is far more distracting for me to reset the cruise than whatever infraction my nanny car observed in me. Today I tested what would happen if I refused to disable the cruise. I already knew the car would progressively jerk and slow until I did something. To my surprise the car activated the emergency flashers. Now I'm driving slow on the interstate and frantically searching for the emergency flashers button. This was not only embarrassing but really distracting and dangerous. I ended up finishing the trip without using the cruise. How is this an improvement over the original invention of plain old cruise control? TLDR: Is there anyway to disable this cascade of warnings or to lower the sensitivity of the sensor? Call me a Luddite, but I'm about ready to return the car.

This is exactly the problem I have with my ‘24 Nautilus. It is absolutely aggravating. To the point where I’ve decided not to buy out my lease.

By the way, I took it to the dealer. They updated the software last week. The service advisor said he’s heard this complaint from other owners as well.

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[ExLexus]

Where can I see what BlueCruise version we have?

 

[ExLexus]

Car is going in this week for service. Anyone know where I can see the BlueCruise version so I can have it updated if needed when it goes in?

 

[Houtex]

Car is going in this week for service. Anyone know where I can see the BlueCruise version so I can have it updated if needed when it goes in?

I don’t think there is a simple way for us laymen to find out the BlueCruise version. Seems like a bad omission IMO.

 

[markfm]

IIRC, both '24 and '25 Nautilus have BC 1.2. In theory our hardware is upgradeable to BC 1.4 (it's been rolling out to some other, Ford, models). BC 1.5 won't be viable, uses different hardware (apparently the '26 Nautilus does have the needed updates for BC 1.5.)

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