Review: 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Surprises With Latest BlueCruise Tech

The 2024 Mustang Mach-E GT offers — aside from being outrageously fast — an upside surprise with Ford's Bluecruise semi-autonomous driver assist technology.

As some quick background, I tend to focus on ADAS, or Advanced Driver Assistance Systems , on my EV test drives. In this review, I will focus on the 2024 Mustang Mach-E GT ADAS. I just finished test driving the Mach-E in the Mojave desert where I could put BlueCruise through its paces. (Recent testing I've done also includes General Motors Super Cruise Gen 2 and Tesla's latest Full Self Driving update).

Bluecruise part 1: Bluecruise is primarily designed as a hands-free driver assist technology for major highways. So, in Los Angeles on highways mapped by Bluecruise such as 5, 405, 118, 101, and 10, the car will drive itself without your hands on the steering wheel: Adaptive Cruise Control does the braking and acceleration and BlueCruise does the steering. This worked very well for me on Interstate 5 and Highway 14, handling most of the highway driving, aided by the automatic lane change.

Bluecruise part 2: Taking Interstate 5 and Highway 14 north will take you to the Mojave Desert, where I had plenty of opportunity to test Bluecruise in off-highway mode (see video below). The off-highway mode is crucial because it means that you can rely on BlueCruise to work on lesser roads — which aren't mapped — like the ruler-edge-straight two-lane routes that crisscross the Mojave desert. Essentially, this mode is a lane-centering technology (not unlike what is offered on the Toyota Bz4x and Subaru Solterra — which I've also tested). But a very good one. This is a major differentiator between Bluecruise and General Motors Super Cruise Gen 2. While Super Cruise Gen 2 offers a much larger map than Super Cruise Gen 1, it does not offer a lane-centering technology for lesser roads where Super Cruise doesn't work. Think of lane-centering as ADAS without mapping. The beauty of lane-centering is that it can be used virtually anywhere.

The upshot: I was very impressed with Bluecruise as it offers both mapped and unmapped ADAS. While Bluecruise is not Tesla FSD , it offers a high level of semi-autonomous driver assistance at prices well below FSD . Bluecruise comes with three months of complimentary service and monthly rates thereafter are $75 versus $199 for FSD.