2020 G80 - Keeps telling me my hands are not on the steering wheel

[joegr]

My 2019 G80 Sport keeps telling me and my husband that our hands are not on the steering wheel, when, in fact, they are. It’s very very annoying. This feature keeps us from enjoying driving the car, which we purchased earlier this year. It’s so annoying I’m considering trading the car on a purchase of a different make. How can I disengage this feature???

The easy way is to turn off lane assist all the way. Press the button for it that it left of the steering wheel.
Alternately, you can navigate the menus on the instrument cluster and just turn off the steering assist, but leave the lane departure warnings on.

 

[n8800m]

The warning does not come from having hands off the steering wheel. What triggers the warning is when driving on a straight road you do not turn the wheel even ever so slightly for a period of time.

 

[G-890073]

Mine does it, too. I turned it off.

how do you turn it off

 

[joegr]

how do you turn it off

You can't turn off the warning. You can turn off active steering assist, which would then mean no warnings.

 

[TinsleyC]

What bugs me is that before I bought my G80, I test drove the G70. It had Lane Centering which centers the car in the middle of the lane, even around corners. It feels like you're on rails. So, I assumed the G80 would have this, too. My G80 came with Lane Keep Assist - which simulates a bowling ball going down the lane with the gutter guards up. The car bounces between the striped marks rather than centering in the middle. I just turned the whole system off, it's useless to me. The technology exists, why don't they just use Lane Centering on all of the models?

 

[srobak]

What bugs me is that before I bought my G80, I test drove the G70. It had Lane Centering which centers the car in the middle of the lane, even around corners. It feels like you're on rails. So, I assumed the G80 would have this, too. My G80 came with Lane Keep Assist - which simulates a bowling ball going down the lane with the gutter guards up. The car bounces between the striped marks rather than centering in the middle. I just turned the whole system off, it's useless to me. The technology exists, why don't they just use Lane Centering on all of the models?

What year is your 80? If it is a DH model (2015-20) - it was tooled for and used the same system for the entire run, which was in the infancy of LKA/LC. At the time - it was actually one of the better ones, as was the smart cruise. There have obviously been advancements since then - and a different system was implemented for the G70 which came some years after the introduction of the solution implemented for the DH.

It was never meant to be a replacement for you steering the car down the road. It was a supplement to keep you from going out of the lane - with the idea being of once it corrected - you would get your attention back on the road & have your hands on the wheel. It was far from perfect - but it did do the job. Advancements in the technology led to what is now in the 70, as well as newer models of the 80 and 90, and the rest of the model lines.

 

[TinsleyC]

What year is your 80?

What year is your 80?

It's a '19, in my signature.

I appreciate the explanation, and see what you mean. Never really thought of it that way. They do save a ton of money keeping the same technology year after year.

Obviously I didn't do a ton of research in comparing the models, was only looking at the G70 that day. Saw and drove the G80 and it met the mark. Just made a broad assumption that the G80 would have everything that G70 did.

 

[srobak]

It's a '19, in my signature.

Yeah - sorry about that - I looked at the profile card on the left, not the sig. Mybad.

They do save a ton of money keeping the same technology year after year.

Yeah - and they did that even long before cars became rolling computers. Just S.O.P. - and the new models do have the improved tech. It will surely improve further before the next major platform upgrade (if the model survives.... sales are not good & haven't been for a while, and everyone is on an SUV kick again like they were in the late 90s/early 00s).