Lane keep assist function

[kolme]

Hey all!

Kolme here with a 2015 5.0 Ultimate. I wanted to see how lane keep assist functioned for the rest of yall.

When I use it, it does a great job of finding the lane and warning me when I drift away from it. However, when I try to let it do some of the work it seems to believe my hands are off the wheel (they're on it, just not moving). When I try to move the wheel slightly to let the car know I'm there, the lane keep assist seems to stop doing its job.

Is this normal and if so, are there some tips or tricks to making it work a bit better?

 

[1FstYota]

I just use it to amuse passengers, it's about as useless as nipples on a male body.

 

[EdP]

Hey all!

Kolme here with a 2015 5.0 Ultimate. I wanted to see how lane keep assist functioned for the rest of yall.

When I use it, it does a great job of finding the lane and warning me when I drift away from it. However, when I try to let it do some of the work it seems to believe my hands are off the wheel (they're on it, just not moving). When I try to move the wheel slightly to let the car know I'm there, the lane keep assist seems to stop doing its job.

Is this normal and if so, are there some tips or tricks to making it work a bit better?

There is a sensor that detects steering wheel movement. Hold steady and it will alarm after a certain time. If you take your hands off the wheel completely, same thing.

I never had it alarm with hands on, but others have. Of course, we have no way of telling if the sensor is exactly the same or out of adjustment compared to others. Aside from a warning if you drift, it seems to do little.

 

[SuperKing]

The only time I found it useful was when I was driving from Vancouver to SeaTac in the middle of the night for a 7AM flight. There was a thick fog and the lanes were barely visible. I was using the LKAS to guide me through the fog. Not sure how it can see what I can't, maybe it sees in infrared...

Other than that, I keep it on but never use it for anything more than a party trick. For some reason, it's horrible in the rain. I find I'm fighting the wheel in the rain sometimes and have to turn it off.

 

[REMIX]

I'm so used to it now that it feels weird to drive anything without it. It has done wonders for my turn signal discipline though!

 

[Scottish Guy]

As long as you lightly touch the wheel the LKAS should work for as long as you want.

The downside is that the system needs a painted centreline and a painted road edge line
for it to work and in the UK apart from motorways [ freeways ] road edge lines on lesser roads are either
worn to nothing or don't exist.

 

[NLJ]

As long as you lightly touch the wheel the LKAS should work for as long as you want.

The downside is that the system needs a painted centreline and a painted road edge line
for it to work and in the UK apart from motorways [ freeways ] road edge lines on lesser roads are either
worn to nothing or don't exist.

The newer iterations are much better. It just needs a center line. The passenger side lane just needs to be a hard edge, curb or contrasty enough that the sensors can determine that it is not pavement.