Minimal Hands Free Driving (Lane Keeping + Adaptive Cruise Control)

[Robot-Wrangler]

You would need to purchase a different vehicle to closer meet your driving fantasies.

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[CD_SM]

"The younger ones are on them at all other times"?
"Better with distracted driving"?
LOL How did you come up with that?

Dang atleast people pre-cel-phone era, & pre-car-assist developed thinking and paying attention for themselves.

Ok, I can clarify: they're "better about **cell phone distracted** driving." Maybe they're distracted other ways, and yeah, they're certainly not as tuned in to their vehicles as we were. But IME they're less likely than their parents to text while doing 45 in a school zone.
I have three twenty-something kids and they (and their partners) all freak out when I look at the map on my Maverick's screen or even get Android Auto to read incoming texts. And God forbid I touch my phone, even stopped at a traffic light. I also drive teen aged scouts to camping trips monthly - same thing: "Let me do that Mr Scoutmaster". Their 40 something parents are way worse. (As, I'll admit, am I.)

 

[urwatuis]

do the world a favor and keep your hands on the steering wheel and pull over to get some rest if you're tired.

 

[Red Eyes - Wide Shut]

Why own a car if you want it to drive you. Get an Uber or take public transit and save money. It's to bad that tech makes so many lazy. I do think that peopleless earth would be better than driverless cars and drone bombers.

 

[Robot-Wrangler]

Why own a car if you want it to drive you. Get an Uber or take public transit and save money. It's to bad that tech makes so many lazy. I do think that peopleless earth would be better than driverless cars and drone bombers.

Coo-coo, coo-coo. At first I thought, OK, here's a real whacko. If we already own the truck, then why take an Uber? There's little to no public transportation available in the country. That's why I own my Maverick. Well, I have six trucks, three cars and three motorcycles and I do occasionally use Uber. Here's why:

There's usually no Uber available here in rural Kentucky. I can however drop off my truck for repair in a larger city and take an Uber home. That's $65 before the usual $10 tip. Wednesday I hitched up my trailer to my F-350 diesel and drove the Maverick onto the trailer. I delivered it to Ford 55 miles away. Then Friday I picked it up with my truck & trailer and I have 42% of a 34 gallon tank of fuel left. I used the F-350 for errands of about 80 miles. So It cost me about 16 gallons of diesel. I used Kroger points and got a discount of $1.25/gallon when I filled up, so it was cheaper to do this than to Uber. When I fly into another a city well served by Uber, I use it and sometimes Lyft.

For me my Maverick is an imperfect backup co-pilot system. I'm only human and make driving mistakes more often at 62 than when I was younger. It's nice that my Maverick has my back. It handles 90% of the driving while I monitor the road.

I guess you can find somebody else to insult because I sure don't give a flying what you or anybody else thinks.

 

[Blue_Max]

Coo-coo, coo-coo. At first I thought, OK, here's a real whacko. If we already own the truck, then why take an Uber? There's little to no public transportation available in the country. That's why I own my Maverick. Well, I have six trucks, three cars and three motorcycles and I do occasionally use Uber. Here's why:

There's usually no Uber available here in rural Kentucky. I can however drop off my truck for repair in a larger city and take an Uber home. That's $65 before the usual $10 tip. Wednesday I hitched up my trailer to my F-350 diesel and drove the Maverick onto the trailer. I delivered it to Ford 55 miles away. Then Friday I picked it up with my truck & trailer and I have 42% of a 34 gallon tank of fuel left. I used the F-350 for errands of about 80 miles. So It cost me about 16 gallons of diesel. I used Kroger points and got a discount of $1.25/gallon when I filled up, so it was cheaper to do this than to Uber. When I fly into another a city well served by Uber, I use it and sometimes Lyft.

For me my Maverick is an imperfect backup co-pilot system. I'm only human and make driving mistakes more often at 62 than when I was younger. It's nice that my Maverick has my back. It handles 90% of the driving while I monitor the road.

I guess you can find somebody else to insult because I sure don't give a flying what you or anybody else thinks.

Do you hang a weight on your steering wheel to minimize your involvement? Or do you keep your hands on the wheel and pay attention, like a sucker?

 

[Robot-Wrangler]

Do you hang a weight on your steering wheel to minimize your involvement? Or do you keep your hands on the wheel and pay attention, like a sucker?

I drive pretty much as I always have with one hand on the wheel. Unless the situation is demanding where the road conditions dictate. I keep a light neutral touch on the steering wheel that the system does not always detect. The weight prevents those annoying messages asking me to do what I'm already doing. If i'm on a straight stretch of road with no traffic around, I can use both hands to momentarily open a drink, then, I resume my one handed driving style. Adaptive people like me that learned how to drive on a stick shift often drive with one hand.

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