Keep hands on steering wheel warning

[bananaslug79]

I have on my to-do list to check out the "ankle weight" options on the forums here to dissuade Sparky from thinking I'm not driving safely or distracted. What I've found driving long stretches w/o BlueCruise available is to keep a slight downward pressure on the right side of the wheel which eliminates these on-screen nags.

For the record, I love all the assistive features available and don't want to turn them off at all. Anything that helps us to be safer drivers barreling down the road in giant boxes of death. The requirement for a tiny bit of torque on the wheel every 10 seconds to satisfy our trucks that we are driving with attentiveness is poor design though.

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[hturnerfamily]

That's actually a LANE KEEPING button on the wheel - at least on my truck, which did NOT come with Adaptive cruise and Lane Centering.

 

[Mike G]

Yeah, there is no button for lane centering...that's a subfunction of the cruise control.

Lane keeping button when pressed *should* let you wander all over the place and not nag you about keeping your hands on the wheel. I just leave it turned on and jerk the wheel every ten seconds instead like a total spaz. (Thanks Ford!)

 

[Adventureboy]

Why does everyone keep saying they have to jerk the wheel? Mine literally takes fingertip pressure to make the alert go away. Seriously, 80% of my driving is with the tips of my fingers on left hand. Making the alert go away is no more than flexing my thumb tip.

I think this is truck-dependent. I have to put way more pressure on the wheel than I should have to for it to recognize the hand on the wheel to the point I nearly have to nudge the truck off its straight course. My wife's MME is fingertip, and simply resting a finger on the wheel does the job. I expect the sensor that triggers the hand on the wheel may have been calibrated differently in different batches, hence the difference in experiences.

 

[Deleted member 19221]

You can also set it to correct you without the nagging.

 

[Deleted member 19221]

I do zero jerking in my truck.

 

[75Highboy]

My ‘25 Lariat has started a new (to me) annoying behavior. While I’m driving manually — no Blue Cruise or any cruise control active — with both hands on the steering wheel, I’ll get the “Keep hands on steering wheel” warning message. Why?? I’m physically, actually driving the truck. Obviously, my hands are on the wheel.

Very annoying.

 

[Kakaratto]

I have been annoyed by this “feature“ as well. Does anyone know how the trick detects a lack of hands on the wheel? Does it use the blue cruise sensors? Or is it a sensor on the steering wheel itself?

 

[bmwhitetx]

I have been annoyed by this “feature“ as well. Does anyone know how the trick detects a lack of hands on the wheel? Does it use the blue cruise sensors? Or is it a sensor on the steering wheel itself?

It is looking for steering wheel movement. Sometimes called torque sensing.

 

[Andrewbens]

Why does everyone keep saying they have to jerk the wheel? Mine literally takes fingertip pressure to make the alert go away. Seriously, 80% of my driving is with the tips of my fingers on left hand. Making the alert go away is no more than flexing my thumb tip.

I have to almost jerk mine to stop it from nagging also. It’s extremely annoying how much input I need to give my steering wheel, I drove an expedition limited and I barely had to touch the wheel to stop it from nagging.

 

[Heliian]

lane keeping,

It is lane keeping. I tested this the other day.

 

[shelnian]

I can see why this is a safety feature when you have BC that drops out of "Hands Free" mode from time to time, but it's just pure annoyance if your Lightning doesn't have BC. Also, the audible ping every time it drops lane centering (usually when you're passing an exit) is also annoying. I keep a little pressure to the left with my left hand (fight the lane centering a bit), to keep the message away. Just want lane centering without the BC safety features that aren't needed.

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