Adaptive cruise control can definitely be activated on accident, Iāve had it happen in a parking lot because the button is placed in the perfect spot to hit it when you do a full steering wheel revolution, itās pretty scary if you donāt know whatās going on
Your understanding of the speed at which cruise control can be activated is incorrect. I suspect that is at the root of the problem.
Mine will take off from a dead stop at 0 while using adaptive cruise. I've played around with it while following cars through and at traffic lights. My car will stop itself behind another car and in order to resume when the car takes off you hit the X/O button. It will even say this on the dash.
So under this logic while parking (at 2-4mph ) if by chance I tap the cruise control it will attempt to speed up to what I had it set at? I'm not being sarcastic at all but that in itself doesn't sound normal let alone safe. Not arguing with anyone , or looking for anything more than honest opinions, and I thank everyone for more perspective on this , but my dealership and ford must think it's bigger than user error since they held my vehicle for over a month now
First, I'd argue that your dealership may 1) not know better and 2) may not be even looking into the matter.
When first getting used to my 2021 Mach-E i had unintended acceleration. The cruise control button was the culprit, is easy to accidentally engage. Poor position on the steering wheel. It took it happening a couple times before adjusting my hand position.
I did that once too.
I also question if the dealer is really doing anything. One way you can test this theory is to look at the current mileage on your Ford Pass App and compare it to the mileage when you dropped off the car. If there is less than 5 miles added to the car since you dropped it off, they are obviously not working on anything since they would need to be driving the car a lot more than that to try to duplicate the concern.
Hi Donnie! I can look into your Mach-E's acceleration concern on my end. To get started, could you please send a private message over with the name/location of your local Ford dealer and your Mach-E's VIN?
That all might be true , but in one out of the 3 times it accelerated without prompt my wife who doesn't have those features in use under her profile had the same issue and it was accelerating towards a vehicle ahead of us that was stopped at an intersection, I could be just hitting the adaptive cruise but this still is concerning for myself and family. I love my mach e , and maybe it's user error on my part but I don't think my concerns are unreasonable based on the year prior having the a similar issue. I called Ford before going to my dealer and explain in great length my concerns and they suggested me taking it in to my dealership. Also they have taking it out for a test or 2 , I can see it on my app and I'm within close proximity of my dealership and have spoken to them , but they just don't have answers. Thank you for your insight
It's not being activated at the slow speed. It's being activated at some point while driving at street speeds. So long as my foot is on the accelerator, it doesn't take over. When I remove my foot at a stop sign (I feather the pedal to control 1 pedal regen braking without using the brake pedal), it then engages and wants to accelerate. It wouldn't be a problem with 2 pedal driving because using the brake pedal would disable it. The bump of the button could have happened 10 minutes or more prior to the unexpected acceleration. I had no clue what was happening the first several times it happened to me. I eventually connected the dots.
I can't remember what it's called, it's something like speed limit recognition, but there is a setting that reads the speed limit sign and has a tolerance for how much faster you want to go. You have to turn that off. I had the same experience after I had mine at the dealer for something else and they tweaked the settings and it felt like the car had a mind of it's own. Adjusting the tolerance to zero solves it.
