DETROIT — Ford Motor is increasing the supply of its hands-free freeway driving system to Lincoln’s entry-level Corsair crossover, because the automaker broadens the expertise to lower-priced autos.

The 2023 Corsair would be the sixth car in Ford’s lineup to supply the system and solely the second Lincoln mannequin, following the model’s flagship Navigator SUV. With the growth of the system — branded as ActiveGlide for Lincoln and BlueCruise for Ford — the Corsair would be the lowest-priced car within the firm to supply the expertise.

The Corsair will probably be priced beginning at roughly $40,000 to $55,000, which features a plug-in hybrid electrical mannequin. Ordering for the crossover is open now, with autos anticipated to reach in U.S. showrooms in early 2023.

Ford’s electrical Mustang Mach-E presently gives the expertise and begins at about $50,000, together with the choice. The Corsair will provide the system on all three of the car’s trims, firm officers stated.

“It was only a pure development with Corsair being the amount gross sales chief,” Dan DeRubeis, Corsair model supervisor, advised CNBC. “I feel that is the strategy that we’ll proceed to take with different packages into the longer term.”

ActiveGlide and BlueCruise use a set of cameras and sensors along with lidar-mapping for hands-free driving on greater than 130,000 miles of devoted highways in North America. It controls the car’s pace and steering, whereas additionally monitoring the driving force’s attentiveness by means of an infrared digicam system.

Ford says greater than 75,000 clients have enrolled within the techniques, with greater than 16 million hands-free driving miles collected by means of the top of August.

Ford’s techniques are much like Basic Motors’ Tremendous Cruise expertise, nevertheless they don’t seem to be as extensively obtainable or succesful in some conditions akin to turns, the place the expertise may have handy steering management again to the driving force.

The techniques from GM and Ford each provide fewer capabilities than Tesla’s superior driver-assistance techniques akin to Autopilot or “Full-Self Driving,” which have been scrutinized for overpromising hands-free performance and enabling drivers to misuse the techniques.

No autos on sale right this moment are absolutely self-driving. All driver-assist techniques nonetheless require drivers to concentrate.

The addition of ActiveGlide to the Corsair, together with lane-changing capabilities, is a part of a number of updates to the car for the 2023 mannequin yr. Different modifications embody inside and exterior design updates akin to a brand new grill and 13.2-inch middle touchscreen, in addition to new trim and shade choices.

Ford’s hands-free freeway system is presently provided on the Lincoln Navigator in addition to the Ford F-150 and Lightning pickups, Mustang Mach-E crossover and Expedition SUV.