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Ford’s BlueCruise 1.4 update lets you keep your hands off the wheel much longer

BlueCruisin’ through the rain.

In fact, the company tells us it can now run an average of five times longer compared to last year’s version 1.2 and double that of 1.3, which started rolling out more recently. However, after some sudden rainfall, the system did warn me to put my hands back on the wheel, so perhaps version 1.4 could improve that situation. Consumer Reports ranks BlueCruise as the top advanced driver-assistance system in the market right now, beating out GM’s Super Cruise and Tesla’s Autopilot.

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