xtraman122
Well-known member
What you explained definitely lines up with what I've experienced. The system seems to simply check for resistance when turn to tell whether or not your hands are there. So even if you put a 10lb weight on there, if you counteract that weight perfectly with your hands, it'll likely think nobody is there and chime.I got to spend some early morning time in the Hwy 59 express lane this week. This is a single lane with concrete barriers on either side, so you can't veer out of your lane, no risk of crashing into someone else, just into the barrier and messing up your truck. While I was there all alone, I got a little braver with my experiments. It turns out that a 2.5 pound ankle weight at 4:00 is sufficient for hands free driving, but still nags when using your hands. A 24 once fishing weight at 3:00 is sufficient for hands free driving, but still nags when using your hands. My guess is that having my hands on the wheel at 6:00 or 9:00 offsets some of the weights I am hanging at 4:00 or 3:00, thus required more weight to kill the nag screen when driving hands on than it does to kill the nag screen when going hands free. Definitely very frustrating.
On another note, I had the lane centering get disabled for me for the first time earlier this week. I had heard of this happening to others, but hadn't seen it myself yet. I was driving on the highway, lane centering enabled, and it did the little message saying it was canceled as I was going past an exit. Didn't think much of it, it does it all the time if it thinks it lost sight of the lines etc.
I kept waiting for it to see the lines again and it wouldn't. I disabled/re-enabled cruise, still wouldn't "lock in" to the lines to enable lane centering. Finally I tried turning off the lane centering button and re-enabling that, and that's when it yelled at me with the orange message on the screen saying lane centering wasn't available. Couldn't get it enable again until I turned the truck off and back, and now it's fine again.
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