Ford picks up the pace on hands-off driving with BlueCruise 1.3 release

No, these are not radical changes to the way BlueCruise operates, nor will they revolutionize the lives of the people who pay up to $800 per year for access to the service. When Sammy Omari joined Ford a year ago, Ford’s software teams would issue internal releases of software on a quarterly basis. It’s basically about the ability for Ford to now have an installed base of hardware on a lot of our vehicles,” Omari said. “We do need new hardware, and the reason for that is largely redundancy,” Omari said. For now, though, the 1.3 release of BlueCruise will land on all compatible Ford Mustang Mach-E SUVs sometime this summer.