Lane Centering Struggle

[FloppyKnockers]

Is the tallboy required so it's the proper weight?

Not at all, but highly recommended for longer road trips.

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[Jimrfox]

Mine actually turned on the flashers, steered me over to the shoulder and stopped the truck. Dealer said to just turn off lane centering. Not a good answer.

are you driving a Ranger, or a Tesla?

 

[Mikefili]

This is in a 2024 Raptor. When driving the new truck from iA to ND, if found myself fighting the centering and get the Cancel warning. Yesterday I thought I would use a light touch (like just keep my hand on steering wheel) but trust the lane centering, and I found it to be amazingly accurate and much more relaxed driving. I also had zero cancel warnings. The issue was it constantly warned me to keep my hands on the steering wheel. With a little testing it was clear the truck does not check if you physically have hands on the steering wheel but rather that you are adding input to the wheel (turning left or right). Unless you deliberately give it a turn every few minutes, it thinks you took your hands off the wheel.

I found the lane centering to be very good and created a relaxed drive which I let it steer but hate all the warnings. I wish there was a way to tweak the aggressiveness of the warning or even shut it off (Forscan ??). My guess is there is not.

I had to turn off lane centering as it really does a great job.

Any advice greatly appreciated.


jjw
ND

I wonder if wrapping a elastic band or something like it will fool the system Into thinking you are holding the wheel?

 

[JWeigel]

From what I can tell...the system does no check if the steering wheel is phycially gripped. But rather it either feels for input (moving it right or left) or a weight on the wheel that creates resistance when the system moves the wheel.

jjw

 

[Dutch]

I wonder if wrapping a elastic band or something like it will fool the system Into thinking you are holding the wheel?

Squeezing the wheel does nothing - the wheel needs to feel force of the driver moving (rotating) it.
Learning that improved my driving experience a bunch.

 

[Garaged]

Really? That's much better than mine. It started doing a crazy ass brake check dance when I let it get past the red warning.

When I was at the Raptor Assault / FP school, they said the brake check dance is the truck assuming you've possible fallen asleep and trying to wake you up and it'll eventually stop after that. I haven't tested it.

I'm still in 2 minds about putting a Comma 3X in just for the lane centering to NOT nag me or cancel itself on a long 16+ hour drive I'll have to do in May.

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