What's been your favorite thing about the Mach-E so far?

[Rocky29670]

I'm so impressed with the active cruise control with lane keep assist, it's incredible how well it can drive itself at this point. I guess that Active Drive Assist will add the ability to start and change lanes for me?

Speaking of cruise control anyone know how I can adjust it to keep the same allowance to go a certain amount over the speed limit when the limit changes. For instance if I'm setting it at 52 in a 45, and it changes to a 35 I want the cruise to maintain that plus 7. Currently mine drops down to 35 and I have to bump it back up on the steering wheel.

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[engnrng]

I'm so impressed with the active cruise control with lane keep assist, it's incredible how well it can drive itself at this point. I guess that Active Drive Assist will add the ability to start and change lanes for me?

Speaking of cruise control anyone know how I can adjust it to keep the same allowance to go a certain amount over the speed limit when the limit changes. For instance if I'm setting it at 52 in a 45, and it changes to a 35 I want the cruise to maintain that plus 7. Currently mine drops down to 35 and I have to bump it back up on the steering wheel.

Intelligent Cruise Control? ICC is the lower button I believe.

 

[TheStig]

There is a tolerance you can set in the cruise control settings. Under speed sign recognition.

 

[timbop]

I guess that Active Drive Assist will add the ability to start and change lanes for me?

No, I don't think auto lane changing will be a feature of the update. AFAIK the main difference is that it will allow you to go handsfree instead of having to keep a little pressure on the wheel. As for the intelligent cruise control, as others mentioned there is a "threshold" setting where you can give it a + or - fudge factor.

To answer the thread title - I agree that the adaptive cruise control combined with auto lane centering is my favorite feature. The second best feature is that I'm not putting 35 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere driving back and forth to work.

 

[Major]

Evidently, you had a better experience with lane keep than I did. It rode too close to the lane marking and suddenly attempted to pull me into the next lane. I deactivated it, but left the adaptive cruise control engaged.

 

[Rocky29670]

I finally figured out that my tolerance on adaptive cruise control had been reset somehow but I got it set again.

 

[timbop]

Evidently, you had a better experience with lane keep than I did. It rode too close to the lane marking and suddenly attempted to pull me into the next lane. I deactivated it, but left the adaptive cruise control engaged.

It does get confused if you get to a split or merge - you have to take control during those cases, but anytime there are clear lines on the road it has been reliable for me. it does occasionally meander close than I would like to the left lane marker, but a little resistance on the wheel is all I needed to get it to keep from straying too far. It does work much better on the highway; on a regular road today it did get confused when the left lane marker ended due to a merge and it tried to send me to the left to stay centered. I guided it right back then, and yes if there was a car in that merge lane and I wasn't paying attention it could have been an issue. Now that I know that can happen on a regular street I will only use it on the highway.

 

[AllenXS]

Adaptive Cruise control when needed is awesome. It's just fun to drive.

 

[Murse-In-Airy]

Evidently, you had a better experience with lane keep than I did. It rode too close to the lane marking and suddenly attempted to pull me into the next lane. I deactivated it, but left the adaptive cruise control engaged.

I find lane keeping is a little jarring too. But lane centering, which takes over once the cruise is set, is pretty amazing. There is a big difference between the two.

 

[Major]

It does get confused if you get to a split or merge - you have to take control during those cases, but anytime there are clear lines on the road it has been reliable for me. it does occasionally meander close than I would like to the left lane marker, but a little resistance on the wheel is all I needed to get it to keep from straying too far. It does work much better on the highway; on a regular road today it did get confused when the left lane marker ended due to a merge and it tried to send me to the left to stay centered. I guided it right back then, and yes if there was a car in that merge lane and I wasn't paying attention it could have been an issue. Now that I know that can happen on a regular street I will only use it on the highway.

Unfortunately, this was on Beltway 8, a toll road and I saw no merge lanes at the spot it occurred.

 

[Major]

I find lane keeping is a little jarring too. But lane centering, which takes over once the cruise is set, is pretty amazing. There is a big difference between the two.

Both were engaged when my bad experience occurred.

 

[benk016]

Another note from having this feature on other Ford vehicles. I've found when I first engage it, it seems to really fight me to get closer to the right lane marker. If I let go, and let it get to that line, it will then re-center itself and be fine after that. It doesn't do it every time, but sometimes it really wants to just hit that line to like re-calibrate or something.

 

[Jimrpa]

No, I don't think auto lane changing will be a feature of the update. AFAIK the main difference is that it will allow you to go handsfree instead of having to keep a little pressure on the wheel. As for the intelligent cruise control, as others mentioned there is a "threshold" setting where you can give it a + or - fudge factor.

To answer the thread title - I agree that the adaptive cruise control combined with auto lane centering is my favorite feature. The second best feature is that I'm not putting 35 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere driving back and forth to work.

I thought it was going to be like SuperCruise? Put in a route, turn it on, and when you get to areas of the route where you could go “hands-free”, it would indicate it was ready for hands free?

 

[generaltso]

I thought it was going to be like SuperCruise? Put in a route, turn it on, and when you get to areas of the route where you could go “hands-free”, it would indicate it was ready for hands free?

Not yet. That‘s the $600 update thats supposed to be available in Q3.

 

[timbop]

I thought it was going to be like SuperCruise? Put in a route, turn it on, and when you get to areas of the route where you could go “hands-free”, it would indicate it was ready for hands free?

The over-the-air update coming in march is NOT the handsfree driving feature. The handsfree driving feature will be a paid-for add-on available later this year (I've heard 3rd quarter).

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