Good and Bad - Adaptive Cruise vs Lane Centering

[jparduhn70]

Lane centering has been one of my favorite things about this car. It's been very precise and not given me any issues. I use it all the time, unlike our Subaru Crosstrek with EyeSight. That implementation of lane centering is awful to me and I actually turn it off on longer road trips. On the other hand, the ACC, while it works pretty well in motion, doesn't seem to pick up cars stopped at traffic signals until the last minute. The Subaru's ACC is really good. I can use it in stop and go traffic, as well as in motion, and it really does a good job with interval spacing.

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[BMT1071]

I'm hoping the execution of lane centering on the MME is better than my QX50. I feel like I am constantly fighting it. I think mostly because I apparently like to drive slightly left of center in my lane.

 

[Awmustang]

the addaptive cruise control is what scares me. It works just like my old car. It can see the cars stopped or stopping ahead. car keeps racing up to them, finally applies brakes then gives notice it will not be able to stop in time.

My parents just got a car with adaptive cruise and I told them the following.
Adaptive cruise is a driver assist technology. It is an assistance to you being the primary driver of the vehicle. If at any time it causes the car to do something you don't like, then you should take action to make the car do what you want. If it's getting too close to the car in front, tap the brakes, adjust the following distance. If there is a stopped car and you are coming up on it more quickly than you'd like, then tap the brakes and slow down yourself.
Adaptive cruise is meant to be used when there is a car relatively close in front of you or in situations where you will approach another vehicle with a relatively small difference in your speeds. It is not intended to deal with a situation of you moving a full speed with no one in front of you and then coming up on a stopped or very slow moving vehicle. This is a situation that Ford specifically warns about in the manual that adaptive cruise may not handle correctly. Thus why you need to always be paying as much attention to the road when using these systems as you do when you are driving without them.
Adaptive cruise systems, including Tesla's system, are designed to ignore most stationary objects.

That said the Adaptive cruise is far better than the lane centering, but it's also been around for a lot longer. We had a 2011 Explorer with Adaptive cruise and it was very timid. The systems in our 2017 Mustang and 2019 Edge are far better. The Edge is our first exposure to Ford's lane centering system and it definitely needs more interventions than the cruise does, but the good thing about the Mach E is that they can send updates to the system. So hopefully you don't need to buy a new car to get the improvements.

 

[A76marine]

Sorry to bring up old threads, but I wanted to re-use instead of creating a new thread.

My lane centering seems to always want to hug the right line. I feel like I'm going to hit the car in the lane next to me. When I correct it manually back to center, it steers off to the side yet again. I must look like I am drunk to other drivers trying to get my car to stay centered.

Has anyone else had this happen where your car hugs the right lane? Is there a fix for this?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Chuck]

Sorry to bring up old threads, but I wanted to re-use instead of creating a new thread.

My lane centering seems to always want to hug the right line. I feel like I'm going to hit the car in the lane next to me. When I correct it manually back to center, it steers off to the side yet again. I must look like I am drunk to other drivers trying to get my car to stay centered.

Has anyone else had this happen where your car hugs the right lane? Is there a fix for this?

Thank you in advance!

For me it takes turns. Sometimes the right side, sometimes the left side. I can be in the fast lane on the freeway and it'll run over the reflectors next to the double yellow line.

 

[Frankie]

Sorry to bring up old threads, but I wanted to re-use instead of creating a new thread.

My lane centering seems to always want to hug the right line. I feel like I'm going to hit the car in the lane next to me. When I correct it manually back to center, it steers off to the side yet again. I must look like I am drunk to other drivers trying to get my car to stay centered.

Has anyone else had this happen where your car hugs the right lane? Is there a fix for this?

Thank you in advance!

Same for mine. Not great when you're passing a semi in the right lane.

 

[AZBill]

For me it takes turns. Sometimes the right side, sometimes the left side. I can be in the fast lane on the freeway and it'll run over the reflectors next to the double yellow line.

Me too, sometimes hugs the left, other times hugs the right. On one of the Blue Cruise videos they stated that it would try to center it, but the driver could adjust where it is in the lane. Maybe it has to do with where the car is at the time lane centering is engaged. I might try turning it off and on and moving the car left or right slightly to see if it makes any difference.

 

[DevSecOps]

Has anyone else had this happen where your car hugs the right lane? Is there a fix for this?

When the system is engaged keep pressure on the steering wheel towards the left. Hold the car towards the left for a short period and the car will learn your preference to be more to the left and maintain that position.

In the owners manual it's on page 219

For what it's worth to the OP - I have religiously used lane keep, lane assist etc in Audi for many years and Ford actually seems to be a little better at it. Audi's lane assist actually tries to yank you into turn lanes - quite often. Although it can be frightening at first, you get used to it and you'll learn where the car continually makes that mistake. Typically it's at the same spots. As long as you have your hands on the wheel, it's just a slight jerk. The system appears to know it's made a mistake based on the sharpness of the attempt and cancels out it's movement.

I find that the lane assist feature is far more beneficial than the minor mistakes it makes. I've had far more serious issues with front collision assist than lane assist. Front collision has stopped me while turning left in the middle of oncoming traffic and often slams on the breaks when passing a semi truck casting a shadow on the road.

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