Chances of Blue Cruise 1.5 or even 1.4 for the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus

[anthony1230]

What's your thoughts on the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus getting the update? Any chance of it happening?

 

[Billz]

What's your thoughts on the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus getting the update? Any chance of it happening?

Don’t expect anything for the 2024. It is obvious Lincoln is punishing 2024 buyers. I say this because there are know issues that are almost 2 years old with with no fixes in sight

 

[swindler]

Some of the people who Cruise Blue quite often have noted that the 'Software 11' patch we received late summer appears to have affected BlueCruise behavior, (generally for the better). Is it possible this was an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.x?

 

[Ccalvinn]

Some of the people who Cruise Blue quite often have noted that the 'Software 11' patch we received late summer appears to have affected BlueCruise behavior, (generally for the better). Is it possible this was an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.x?

I have a 2025, so this might be a bit different.

If I recall correctly, the next 'upgrade' for Blue Cruise gets the feature where it will automatically go around a slower moving car. Mine (ours) doesn't have that feature. I did the Software 11 patch and then had a long trip from Michigan to Texas and back with a lot of Blue Cruising. The warning messages about watching the road or touching the wheel were all improved, but while it would inform me that there was the opportunity for a lane change when following a slower car, it never did it automatically.

I believe I also remember someone saying that the newer version of Blue Cruise is a hardware difference and not simply software, making the upgrade path impossible for 2024 and 2025 Nautili.

Again, I don't have a website or other spot for information, this is just from memory of discussions on here, on other forums, and with my dealer.

______________________________

 

[canadave]

I believe I also remember someone saying that the newer version of Blue Cruise is a hardware difference and not simply software, making the upgrade path impossible for 2024 and 2025 Nautili.

This is the correct answer. The BlueCruise 1.5 update for the 2026 Nautilus (which includes automatic lane change capability) is dependent on newer hardware that is built into the car and cannot be retrofitted for 2024 and 2025 models.

 

[JMAB]

This is the correct answer. The BlueCruise 1.5 update for the 2026 Nautilus (which includes automatic lane change capability) is dependent on newer hardware that is built into the car and cannot be retrofitted for 2024 and 2025 models.

One of the reasons we choose to lease technology-mobiles for the past 3 lease/puchase cycles. They hype up the OTA capabilities on the 24 release and never talk about the hardware limitations of each year. The only real value to OTA is a too slow trickle of fixes to the limited Q&A testing performed prior to release.

Other than that, we absolutely love our Naughty2 Hybrid (Naughty1 was bought back) even with it's grumpy brakes that hopefully will be fixed this fiscal year.

 

[swindler]

This is the correct answer. The BlueCruise 1.5 update for the 2026 Nautilus (which includes automatic lane change capability) is dependent on newer hardware that is built into the car and cannot be retrofitted for 2024 and 2025 models.

I understand that the older models cannot get 1.5, but the older models were shipped with 1.2 (at least, the '24s were). They're 3 versions back.

I was wondering if the update possibly brought BC up to 1.4, which is said to limit driver interruption and allow longer trips hands free, and be more stable within the lane and through curves. I would hope that at least this version would be made available.

In the future, there's always the possibility of bifurcating the software into a 'pre-26' and '26+' version, so that some of the new features that are not dependent on the hardware can still make it to the '24s. But I doubt they'll do that based on their movement thus far.

 

[angore]

I am not optimistic given all the other software bugs. The most important customer set is the leasers since they decide at end of lease to switch or continue. If it takes 3 years to see the update, the current leaser will not likely be as satisfied,

They still need to fix the stability issues (what we called hardening at work) where updates do not break functions. My recent case was when they updated my door software and when I started to go home the car started in remote start mode and took some reboots to restore normal operation.

______________________________

 

[Billz]

I am not optimistic given all the other software bugs. The most important customer set is the leasers since they decide at end of lease to switch or continue. If it takes 3 years to see the update, the current leaser will not likely be as satisfied,

They still need to fix the stability issues (what we called hardening at work) where updates do not break functions. My recent case was when they updated my door software and when I started to go home the car started in remote start mode and took some reboots to restore normal operation.

I have lost faith in Ford and at this point I don't expect any fixes much less any improvements

 

[NickRivait]

I have the 11 update > blue cruise is still hyper sensitive