Adaptive cruise with nothing else?

[WXman]

Can I use adaptive cruise with no Bluecruise or other nannies forcing me to hold the wheel at 10 and 2 constantly? On longer stretches of road I sometimes move my hands down to the 4:00 and 8:00 position to give my shoulders a break but I haven't figured out how to successfully do this. Right now my truck hates it when I do that and disables adaptive cruise control immediately. How do I set this thing up or I can use adaptive cruise control separately from all the other features?

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[RLXXI]

Uncheck lane keeping and/or lane centering iirc.

 

[WXman]

Thank you.

 

[K6CCC]

I use the Adaptive Cruise Control far more often then Lane Centering (don't really trust it). Just turn on Cruise Control and it sets the speed to whatever you are currently driving, and you're good to go. Although I have seen a thread here that turning on Cruise Control will automatically enable Lane Centering, it does NOT do that on my 2024 Flash.

 

[GoodSam]

Can I use adaptive cruise with no Bluecruise or other nannies forcing me to hold the wheel at 10 and 2 constantly?

I think the adaptive cruise only requires some torque on the steering wheel, every 15 seconds, not holding the steering wheel in a certain position. I just put a light touch on one side of the steering wheel, one hand only, at the 5 or 7 position. I saw a Youtube of a person that attached a 1/2? pound weight on one side of the steering wheel and went with no hands at all for some longer period of time. I do not think this could work without lane keeping active! I like adaptive cruise control for its ability to react in case I get distracted by short skirt (Woo-Hoo, Baby!), dropping M&Ms, etc.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

Adaptive cruise is where it stays a certain distance from the vehicle in front of you, right?
I have a 24 Flash and wanted everything disabled, which I did, but when I would turn on cruise it would beep because that distance thing was disabled. I eventually enabled just that and now it stops beeping when I enable cruise. I never keep my hands on the wheel at a certain position. It’s kind of annoying because even the closest car length away is not close enough and it will slow down before I’m ready to change lanes, but it’s better than it beeping at me every time.

 

[K6CCC]

It’s kind of annoying because even the closest car length away is not close enough

Wow! The closest setting is WAY to close for safety. I have it set to the farthest and that is just barely at the minimum distance that your driver safety training will tell you to follow. At least what's in the vehicle code here in California is 2 seconds following distance. The longest Adaptive Cruise Control setting is reliably just a hair over that two seconds. I have to do driver safety training for work and an unrelated volunteer position on a periodic basis. Both state that the 2 seconds that is required should be considered a minimum and 3 to 4 seconds should be the target.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

Wow! The closest setting is WAY to close for safety. I have it set to the farthest and that is just barely at the minimum distance that your driver safety training will tell you to follow. At least what's in the vehicle code here in California is 2 seconds following distance. The longest Adaptive Cruise Control setting is reliably just a hair over that two seconds. I have to do driver safety training for work and an unrelated volunteer position on a periodic basis. Both state that the 2 seconds that is required should be considered a minimum and 3 to 4 seconds should be the target.

Well I don’t drive a long distance, if any distance with relying on it. It’s more of when I’m coming up to a car I’m about to move into the left lane to pass and it wants to slow way down and then if another vehicle is coming up behind me in the ‘passing lane’ it kind of messes it up for them. Like I’m slowing down to get in their way when in reality I’m wanting to stay a good speed. Hope this explains it. If I were to drive a long distance I wouldn’t stay that close to someone.

 

[Bigred]

I think the adaptive cruise only requires some torque on the steering wheel, not holding the steering wheel in a certain position. I just put a light touch on one side of the steering wheel, one hand only, at the 5 or 7 position. I saw a Youtube of a person that attached a 1/2 pound weight on one side of the steering wheel and went with no hands at all for some longer period of time. I do not think this could work without lane keeping active!

Search the forums for "ankle weight"...Poor man's Blue Cruise.

 

[Athrun88]

Not a fan of adaptive cruise personally but yes, turn off lane keep assist and you'll just have cruise when the system keeping the gap. I don't think you can turn off the "keep your hands on the wheel" alert though unless you give some input every minute or so. Apparently Ford doesn't believe that some sections of road can be straight.

My preference is to have the dumb cruise on, lane keep off, and I'll control the gap myself by toggling cruise on and off. Adaptive is too conservative, quick on the brake, and slow on the acceleration.

 

[hturnerfamily]

'Adaptive Cruise' simply provides a DISTANCE buffer, automatically, from the vehicle in front of you, which can also bring you to a slow, or even COMPLETE STOP, and you can also Enable the optional 'Speed Sign Recognition' Limit/Automation to your Cruise capabilities...
- with updated versions, like this, when you initially turn ON Cruise, you are immediately also ACTIVATING the system for your current speed .. you then either modify that speed, if you wish, or DEACTIVATE the Cruise, temporarily, by pressing the center button...you can then REACTIVATE that same former speed by pressing the center button Again... or by simply using either the UP or DOWN arrow buttons, and then modify the speed with those same buttons...

You already know all that, I'm sure...

-'LaneKEEPING'(steering assist) and 'LaneCENTERING'(self steering), though, are not related to Cruise or Adaptive Cruise, but yes, we all tend to use these at the same time, mostly...

'LaneKEEPING' is a warning/alert/assist system for lane departure, or may seem to 'ping pong' the truck within the lane stripes. You can, of course, modify how you want these to work.

'LaneCENTERING', is what most of us think of when talking about at-speed driving, long distances, with 'Self Steering' help. This uses a RADAR to keep the truck centered within the stripes. Some of us have this more simplified 'Adaptive Cruise', while others also have the optional 'BlueCruise', with the additional Equipment required... I believe that LaneCentering is also ONLY Active when CRUISE is deployed... (other vehicles, like my wife's KIA EV9 can deploy LC even when Cruise is not ON)

A) Adaptive Cruise has the annoying and frequent every-15-second 'warning' alert for the steering wheel movement, but otherwise can be used on almost any roadway with striping. You can, though, bypass the annoyance by adding a simple 1lb wrist-weight to the 2pm position on the wheel. I can drive hundreds of miles without any warnings, and it works almost perfectly. You ALWAYS have to be attentive, but generally it works flawlessly.

B) Blue Cruise, though, requires certain software updates of mapped roadways that Ford uses to provide the 'no alert' long-range hands-off driving. To some extent, though, this is problematic for many, as many roadways are not available, and almost NO rural or off-interstate roads are mapped. But, BC-enabled owners can better chime in on this. My PRO SR does not have BC, nor do I want it.


When it comes to the question of whether you 'can' use Adaptive Cruise WITHOUT also LaneKeeping or LaneCentering, I believe that is totally up to the driver SETTINGS, as these all tend to be their own 'features', separately.

This is somewhat like the questions surrounding 'Auto-Hold' and '1 Pedal', as they can have similar characteristics, but for differing reasons for each driver needs and desires, and can both even be employed at the same time.
A) 'AutoHold' is simply for holding the truck, after stopping, with the ability to lift the driver foot off the BRAKE pedal. The truck will not move until the 'GO' pedal is pressed, of course.
B) '1 Pedal' feature INCLUDES the same 'hold' feature as 'AutoHold', but also engages slowing the truck, and even to a complete STOP, when the driver foot comes off the GO pedal, using a combination of Regeneration, and even the physical Brakes.

Some of us prefer only AutoHold, and others only 1-Pedal.. or even fewer, neither one

Personally I drive in Sport Mode, or Normal, and have AutoHold always engaged. It's my comfort zone.
I've also found, though, that if you employ Adaptive cruise, even in HARSH stop-n-go ATLANTA traffic, with thousands of vehicles all around you, the truck will act just like 1-Pedal, and will slow and stop the truck, as needed, while the adaptive cruise will restart your movement and follow the vehicle ahead - leaving your hands AND your feet, free : ) It's amazing.

SCREEN - FEATURES: DRIVER ASSIST

LANE KEEPING SYSTEM: MODE

LANE KEEPING: INTENSITY


CRUISE CONTROL and LANE CENTERING

 

[Heliian]

Yes, read the owners manual.

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