Now that Ford has announced their new EV strategy I suspect that BlueCruise 1.3 is all my 2023 Mach-E is getting. Why waste resources on a platform that you are no longer going to support?
Anyway, since this is the self driving thread it should mention the open source project called Open pilot brought to us by the folks over at https://comma.ai/. This open source project is not just for Ford vehicles. It works on a variety of differing manufacturers. I’ve never used it first hand but a few people on the Mach-E forum I hang on have and all of them claim it is better than Fords current implementation.
This is an option for people who want the tech but it was never offered in the vehicle they drive or for people like me who are getting left behind by the manufacturer and want to keep the tech but with improved performance and stability.
The only fly in the ointment is if Ford decides to send an OTA update to encrypt the CAN bus on older models of the Mach-E like they have on the 2025 model year. This will essentially render open source options unusable unless someone can break the encryption.