Issues with lane assist in cruise control?

[stlscott]

Took my RR out for a longish roadtrip yesterday and had an issue. When using cruise control and the lane assistant, after a few minutes is told me to keep my hands on the wheel. My hands were firmly on the wheel. I jiggled the steering a bit and it went away for another minute than the warning came up again then again then the red warnings that it would stop the lane assistance of I didn’t keep my hands on the wheel.

I just turned it off.

Anyone else have any issues with this? Any ideas on how to address?

It would be nice to use this feature but it’s clearly not usable for me now.

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[Alaska Steve]

This is a well known complaint of the lane keeping feature in the Ranger. I've turned it off as well. I've had it in other vehicles and always found it to be more of a nuisance than a real aid.

 

[JimJa]

It's not really an issue per se --- it's the way Ford designed it. It's good for about 10 seconds before the warning and if ignored, the truck will slow. Try a light "squeeze" in different locations on your steering wheel. Doesn't work very well anyway and is of limited use.

A bigger issue is when turning on the ACC, is that lane keeping automatically comes on. Ford should make lane keeping a manual select.

The Cruise Control on a vehicle previously owned was always on (no on-off switch). Excellent idea. All the other features; speed select/up/down, disconnect and resume, worked like any other cruise control.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

I found that it's not the steering wheel that senses your presence, but the turning force applied. This feels flawed because if you're on a straight run for any length of time, you don't need to turn the wheel and the truck gets mad. I figured out that if you just rest your driving hand toward the bottom of the wheel so you're always adding just slight force, the warning will not pop up.

 

[Cronn99]

It’s no Tesla that’s for sure but the adaptive cruise control I think is pretty good I don’t use the steering assist either

 

[three west]

not to be that guy, but its lane centering in the adaptive cruise control that you're talking about, not lane keeping assist. Lane keeping is a separate feature.

and yes, after doing multiple 2 hrs road trips in the truck, I ended up turning off the lane centering, because either it just constantly yells at me to keep my hands on the wheel, or I have to keep tension on it, and after 2 hrs that tension is fatiguing.
I've been happier since I turned it off. Seems like a feature not quite ready for prime time yet.

 

[unixadm]

My 2021 F150 will complain when not in Blue Cruise about this with my hand on the wheel. Us steady drivers get penalized.

 

[stlscott]

Thanks for all the comments. Disappointing this feature doesn't work. Seems like this is pretty easy tech, as my wife's 3-year-old Honda CRV and my Dad's 4-year-old RAV-4 seem to have this figured out. Oh well, maybe a software update someday will make it useful.

 

[Ford Motor Company]

Took my RR out for a longish roadtrip yesterday and had an issue. When using cruise control and the lane assistant, after a few minutes is told me to keep my hands on the wheel. My hands were firmly on the wheel. I jiggled the steering a bit and it went away for another minute than the warning came up again then again then the red warnings that it would stop the lane assistance of I didn’t keep my hands on the wheel.

I just turned it off.

Anyone else have any issues with this? Any ideas on how to address?

It would be nice to use this feature but it’s clearly not usable for me now.

Hi Scott, If you’d like further assistance regarding the lane assist, feel free to send us a private message with your VIN and local Ford dealer. Thank you!

 

[Pete6114]

Both Lane centring and lane keeping will give the warning if no steering wheel movement is detected, and is not a " squeeze ". I disabled Lane centring altogether since it wants to ride off center, close to the middle line at all times. Dealer re calibrated the camera but it didn't help on my RR, rendering it useless. Still using lane keeping even though i do get the warnings all the time. Guess ford don't want us to keep our hands off the wheel for to long, which makes sense.

 

[ZilWin]

I had a similar issue on my Tesla with FSD It would nag you to keep your hands on the wheel. i have a very light touch. I found if I kept a but of torsional force at 4 oclock it would not nag me. i have not experimented with this truck yet.

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